"Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, s...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~












Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...
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