Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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