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Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)

by Robert A. Caro

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Jul 03, 2026 01:29PM

“But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't
prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way...”
― Albert Camus

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“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong

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“stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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