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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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"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."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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