"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
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"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
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"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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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"All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side."
-George Wald
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"War is not civilized."
-Talib Kweli
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"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."
-George Wald
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"Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war."
-Bianca Jagger
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"I think its man's nature to go to war and fight."
-Talib Kweli
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"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."
-George Wald
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