Tag: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn