A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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