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This is not a review, but a comment on the very first chapter: "The Architect." It appears that this chapter is inspired by the real story of a building, now known as the "Looshaus," built in 1911 by Adolf Loos on the Michaelerplatz in Vienna. The bu
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“Now I understood the meaning of the phrase ‘deprivation of political rights for life’.”
― Pink Flower: Growing Up in Mao's China
― Pink Flower: Growing Up in Mao's China
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since...it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.”
― A Political Philosophy
― A Political Philosophy
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
― The Thomas Sowell Reader
― The Thomas Sowell Reader
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