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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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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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Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
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A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.
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Your friend will argue with you.
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It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
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Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
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You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
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Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
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If someone asked you, why not help him out?
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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.
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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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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
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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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This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
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The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
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... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
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Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
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