Niels
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“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
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“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.”
― Infidel
― Infidel
“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”
― Infidel
― Infidel
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
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