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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principal... (more Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes)
| August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, Krasnoe Koleso. Knot 1.) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn | |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology (Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers) by Daniel J. Mahoney | |
| Assault on Ideology: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Political Thought (Applications of Political Theory) by Pontuso James F. |