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“quotation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons.”
― Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
― Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
“At the height of the Cold War, the CIA made copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm rain down from the Communist sky.”
― Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
― Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
“His famous example was that of the grocer who places in his shop window, among his vegetables, a sign that reads, “Workers of the world, unite!” Havel argued that the grocer did it not because he believed in the slogan but because it was easier to do it than to not. “If he were to refuse,” Havel wrote, “there would be trouble.”35 By placing the sign in his shop front, the grocer is effectively saying, “I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient.”
― Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
― Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
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