It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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 a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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