Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Peace
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If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
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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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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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