A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt 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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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 salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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