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Violence Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them…
- The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union…
- The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even…
- Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
- Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
- Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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