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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNAny man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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 would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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