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A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
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Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?
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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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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
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A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
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I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
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The less you speak, the more you will hear.
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I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.
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Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.
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A hard life improves the vision.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
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