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“While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.”
― Estado y revolución
― Estado y revolución
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
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“Slippery use of the word “privilege” is part of a vogue of calling achievements “privileges”—a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.”
― Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
― Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.”
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“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.”
― Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
― Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
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