Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNBlow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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