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In Gaza, a young woman named Yusra al-Azami was shot dead in April 2005, for the crime of sitting unchaperoned in a car with her fiancé. The young man escaped with only a vicious beating. The leaders of the Hamas “vice and virtue” squad
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Sadly occurrences like this still go on in those parts of the world. Yet it’s the US that comes under the charge of a repressive nation.
“The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
― The Naked and the Dead
― The Naked and the Dead
“It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.”
― Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
― Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
“We need’ is always code for ‘I want.”
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“And do you think that unto such as you
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!”
― Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!”
― Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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