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“Furthermore, having lost faith in himself, he thought it his duty to undermine the nation's faith in itself.”
― Nathanael West, A Cool Million

“Not to cleave to any person, be it even the dearest — every person is a prison and also a recess.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“When the government designates as punishable all play of mind against the state, the moderate liberals come and opine that fun, satire, wit, humor, etc., must have free play anyhow, and genius must enjoy freedom. So not the individual man indeed, but still genius, is to be free. Here the state, or in its name the government, says with perfect right: He who is not for me is against me.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March