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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt 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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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