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It’s strange how the most dyed-in-the-wool tyrants still vaguely respect due process, as if they want to make it appear that they aren’t abusing procedure, even while riding roughshod over every convention.
“In the late 1940s, a dystopian novel based on the notorious horrors of ‘National Socialism’ would probably have been very well-received. But it would have done nothing to shake the complacency of Western intellectuals concerning the system of state terror for which, at the time, so many of them had either a blind spot or a soft spot.”
― Why Orwell Matters
― Why Orwell Matters
“There are hammers in the world that need to pound in nails, and nails that need to be pounded by hammers.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
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