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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.
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The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
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To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Who will dare say he has defined art?
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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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 horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.
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Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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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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... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
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Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
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I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
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