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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“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?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

Maajid Nawaz
“As he continued to talk to me, I realized one of the fundamental points about Islamism that so many people fail to understand. The way Osman was speaking wasn’t in the orthodox, religious way of the imam with a stick; he was talking about politics, about events that were happening now. That’s crucial to understanding what Islamism is all about: it isn’t a religious movement with political consequences, it is a political movement with religious consequences.”
Maajid Nawaz, Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism

John Steinbeck
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

5971 Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism — 811 members — last activity Aug 24, 2025 10:15AM
Including within it neo-liberalism, libertarianism, objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, and American conservatism, this classical or "market" ...more
22293 The Four Horsemen — 115 members — last activity Jan 07, 2019 09:45AM
A harmonious place to discuss and consider the offerings of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.
53597 Seoul Book Club Hosted by Barry Welsh — 352 members — last activity Jan 07, 2026 11:12AM
This is a book club for discussing Korea-related books. Everyone is welcome.
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"Because we wanna read all the books, but we can’t." This book club is for readers like us. Those with a stack of books, a list of reading dreams, ec ...more
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