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Laura Beers
“Orwell is justly admired for his grasp of the essential truth that tyranny is incompatible with liberty. There is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship, he taught us, whether it be a dictatorship of the left or of the right, or the white man's burden of imperial dictatorship.”
Laura Beers, Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-first Century, Library Edition

Cormac McCarthy
“This is a terrible place to die in."
"Where is a good one?”
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Iris Chang
“Power kills, and absolute power kills absolutely.” The less restraint on power within a government, Rummel found, the more likely that government will act on the whims or psychologically generated darker impulses of its leaders to wage war on foreign governments.”
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II

Sarah Wynn-Williams
“When you have so many other people doing things for you professionally and personally, you stop taking responsibility for any of it.”
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Murray N. Rothbard
“The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism; there is no better way to stifle that criticism than to attack any isolated voice, any raiser of new doubts, as a profane violator of the wisdom of his ancestors.”
Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State

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