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“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
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“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
― The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
― The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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