Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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