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 SOLZHENITSYNOur 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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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