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“A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
― God and the State
― God and the State
“Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
“To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“There is no freedom of religion without a government that is free from religion.”
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
“Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat.”
― Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
― Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
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