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“Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
“The moral courage required to hold a different view and to press it upon irritated readers or unsympathetic listeners remains everywhere in short supply.”
― Ill Fares the Land
― Ill Fares the Land
“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic competition that a participant who breaks the rules will triumph—at least in the short run—over more ethically sensitive competitors.”
― Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents
― Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents
“The truth is that the hard-fought victories of the Civil Rights Movement caused a reaction that stripped Brown of its power, severed the jugular of the Voting Rights Act, closed off access to higher education, poured crack cocaine into the inner cities, and locked up more black men proportionally than even apartheid-era South Africa.”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“If it is to be taken seriously again, the Left must find its voice. There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy.”
― Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents
― Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents
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