24 ordspråk av Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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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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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.
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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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I have not painted the dark reality in rose-tinted shades but I do include a clear way, a search for something brighter, some way out - most importantly in the spiritual sense.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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Russians are exiting from communism in a most unfortunate and awkward way.
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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life.
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