It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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