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It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.
“Prosecution, defense—it don’t make a hair’s difference one way or the other. I thought”
― The Confessions of Nat Turner
― The Confessions of Nat Turner
“with sloppy uncomprehending smiles, shuffling their feet. Suddenly they seem to me as meaningless and as stupid as a barn full of mules,”
― The Confessions of Nat Turner
― The Confessions of Nat Turner
“Mohr, a colleague and protégé, resigned from the faculty to preach the joys of illiteracy, and a number of Wittenberg undergraduates, seeing no point in further study, left their lecture halls to become craftsmen.”
― A World Lit Only by Fire
― A World Lit Only by Fire
“this voluptuous gift, made of the humble and omnipresent apple. Comforter to the lonely and outcast, an anodyne for pain, a shelter against the chill wind of remorseless, oncoming death”
― The Confessions of Nat Turner
― The Confessions of Nat Turner
“As for Lassalle, he became the victim of Marx’s most brutal anti-Semitic and racial sneers: he was ‘Baron Itzig’, ‘the Jewish Nigger’, ‘a greasy Jew disguised under brilliantine and cheap jewels’.”
― Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
― Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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