“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
― It Can't Happen Here
― It Can't Happen Here
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
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