Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWoe 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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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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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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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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