Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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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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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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