The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNToday 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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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 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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