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“He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.”
― Point Counter Point
― Point Counter Point
“Everything that happens is intrinsically like the man it happens to.”
― Point Counter Point
― Point Counter Point
“Not individuals but institutions are the enemies, and they most afflict the disciples who the most generously serve them. They insinuate their tyranny under a hundred guises and pompous names, such as Polite Society, the Family, the Church, Sound Business, the Party, the Country, the Superior White Race; and the only defense against them, Carol beheld, was unembittered laughter.”
― Main Street
― Main Street
“If God had been like a toad, you could have rid the globe of toads, but when God was like yourself, it was no good being content with stone figures — you had to kill yourself among the graves.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
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