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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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 name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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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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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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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 sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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