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Mehran

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Book cover for Parade's End: The Tetralogy

Parade's End: The Tetralogy by Ford Madox Ford

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we have always been boodlers and robbers and reivers and pirates and cattle thieves, and so we’ve built up the great tradition that we love . . . But, for the moment, it’s painful. Our present crowd is not more corrupt than Walpole’s. But ...more

Our Culture, What's Left Of It

by Theodore Dalrymple

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Mehran’s Quotes

“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

tags: limits-of-power, nothing-left-to-lose, tyranny

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