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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."
"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."
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
"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."
"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."
"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."
"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."
"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."
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
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