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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

@ai_solzhenitsyn

Quotations from the Nobel Prize winning author. “Hurls truth and courage into the teeth of total power.” Dissident. Expelled from the Soviet Union.

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Elon Musk “We have a Russian proverb: ‘Do not call a wolf to help you against the dogs.’ ... Because when the wolves come, they will destroy the dogs, but they will also tear you apart.”

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“In the Criminal Code of 1926 there was a most stupid Article 139—‘on the limits of necessary self-defense’—according to which you had the right to unsheath your knife only after the criminal's knife was hovering over you. And you could stab him only after he had stabbed you.”

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“The state, in its Criminal Code, forbids citizens to have firearms or other weapons, but does not itself undertake to defend them!”

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“The state turns its citizens over to the power of the bandits—and then through the press dares to summon them to “social resistance” against these bandits. Resistance with what?”

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"The Communist Manifesto ... which everyone knows by name, and which almost no one ever takes the trouble to read, contains even more terrible things than what has actually been done."

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“Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.”

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“If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.”

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“The failings of human consciousness, deprived of its divine dimension, have been a determining factor in all the major crimes of this century.”

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“[World War I] was a war (the memory of which seems to be fading) when Europe, bursting with health and abundance, fell into a rage of self-mutilation which could not but sap its strength for a century or more, and perhaps forever.”

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“[T]he flaw of a consciousness lacking all divine dimension was manifested after World War II when the West yielded to the satanic temptation of the ‘nuclear umbrella.’”

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“It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that ‘revolution must necessarily begin with atheism.’”

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“The West has yet to experience a Communist invasion; religion here remains free. But the West’s own historical evolution has been such that today it too is experiencing a drying up of religious consciousness.”

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“There exists a collection of ready-made phrases, of labels, a selection of ready-made lies. And not one single speech nor one single essay or article nor one single book...can exist without the use of these primary cliches.”

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“Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions.”

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“[I]n the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.”

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“World democracy could have defeated one totalitarian regime after another, the German, then the Soviet. Instead, it strengthened Soviet totalitarianism, helped bring into existence a third totalitarianism, that of China...”