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Created by
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3 months ago for
GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The agents of the inquisition invoked Christianity, conquerors of foreign lands extolled the virtue
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
on their motherland, the colonizers, civilization, the Nazi's, race,
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
and the Jacobins, equality, brotherhood and the happiness of future generations.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Thanks to ideology the 20th century was fated to experience evil doing calculated in the millions.
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
One thing is definitely clear, not everything that enters our ears, penetrates our consciousness.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost.
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Created by
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evil doers stopped short at a dozen corpses
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
because they had no ideology.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Ideology,
that is what gives evil doing its long sought justification and
gives the evil doer
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the necessary steadfastness and determination, and makes his actions seem good in his / others eyes
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3 months ago for
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
To do evil, the human being must first of all believe that what he is doing is good
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
or a well considered act in conformity with natural law.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Humans need a justification for evil on a vast scale.
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Created by
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3 months ago for
GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Bluecaps, integrators, in their daily life were possessed
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
by the two strongest instincts other than hunger and sex, greed for power and greed for gain.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
You had the power of arrest. Ordinary citizens are mere blocks of wood. You were always right.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Anything you saw was yours, any apartment, any women was yours, any enemy was struck from your path.
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wiseguy
3 months ago for
GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Bluecaps, interrogators, were judged on the total arrests and confessions they extracted
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Low totals led to them being kicked out. Stalin could never believe he had no enemies in a district.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
That is why they felt no mercy and an explosion of rage toward prisoners who didn't capitulate.
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Created by
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3 months ago for
GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Socrates told us "know thyself"
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Confronted by the pit into which we are about to toss those who have done us harm
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
we halt stricken dumb.
It's after all only because of the way things worked out,
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that they were the executioners and we weren't.
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GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
One and the same human being is at various ages and under various circumstances
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a totally different human being.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood, but his name doesn't change
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and to that name we ascribe the whole lot of good and evil.
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GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
During the life of any heart, this line dividing good and evil keeps changing place,
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil
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and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish.
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wiseguy
3 months ago for
GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
If only if it were all so simple, if only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds,
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us, and destroy them
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but the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being
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and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart.
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GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The victims of the Bosheviks never conducted themselves so despicably as the leading Bolsheviks
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
when the lightening struck them.
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Created by
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3 months ago for
GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1937 was needed to show how little their ideology was worth.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
That ideology of which they boasted so enthusiastically
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
turning Russia upside down, destroying its foundations,trampling everything it held sacred underfoot
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That Russia where they themselves had never been threatened with such retribution.
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Created by
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3 months ago for
GulagArchipelago
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The majority of those in power, up to the moment of their own arrest,
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were pitiless in arresting others, o
bediently destroyed their peers
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and handed over to retribution their friends and comrades of arms of yesterday.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
All the big Bolsheviks were executioners of other Bolsheviks along with millions of non-communists.
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