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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
More Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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