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Il y a fort à penser que le monde romain ressemble à certains pays d’Amérique latine où le rapport du patrimoine au revenu correspond à des dimensions vertigineuses.
“The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.”
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― 1984
― 1984
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“The man who no longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or from an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to the unjustifiable. It is because he likes individual human beings, participates in communities, and respects the truth, that he refuses to surrender his soul to an abstract ideal of humanity, a tyrannical party, and an absurd scholasticism. . . . If tolerance is born of doubt, let us teach everyone to doubt all the models and utopias, to challenge all the prophets of redemption and the heralds of catastrophe.
If they can abolish fanaticism, let us pray for the advent of the sceptics.”
― The Opium of the Intellectuals
If they can abolish fanaticism, let us pray for the advent of the sceptics.”
― The Opium of the Intellectuals
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