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“The madness of love is a great motivator of new ideas.”
― Cossacks In Paris
― Cossacks In Paris
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― True Love
― True Love
“Now I think that a fundamental fact that explains the all-round reign of terror found under socialism is the incredible dilemma in which a socialist state places itself in relation to the masses of its citizens. On the one hand, it assumes full responsibility for the individual’s economic well-being. Russian or Bolshevik-style socialism openly avows this responsibility—this is the main source of its popular appeal. On the other hand, in all of the ways one can imagine, a socialist state makes an unbelievable botch of the job. It makes the individual’s life a nightmare.”
― Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
― Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
“Love may be the one thing in this world today that is not mad, sir. For, what could be more sane than to risk dying for what we can't live without?”
― Cossacks In Paris
― Cossacks In Paris
“A lighthouse is kind of like an angel. Most of the people the light helps take it for granted. Until it’s not there.”
― The Lighthouse Pylon
― The Lighthouse Pylon
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