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“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
― Candle in the Wind
― Candle in the Wind
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
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“As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian life cannot take part in deeds of violence. Of what value then to him are arguments about the imaginary advantages of doing what is morally impossible for him to do?”
― Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non Violence
― Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non Violence
“So it would be, were it not for the law of inertia, as immutable a force in men and nations as in inanimate bodies. In men it takes the form of the psychological principle, so truly expressed in the words of the Gospel, " They have loved darkness better than light, because their deeds were evil." This principle shows itself in men not trying to recognise the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.”
― The Kingdom of God Is Within You
― The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Todd’s 2025 Year in Books
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