How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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