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Book cover for Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
Fright and shame seemed to have anaesthetised me. I was crying partly because I felt that this was expected of me, partly from genuine repentance, but partly also because of a deeper grief which is peculiar to childhood and not easy to ...more
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Jack London
“I know nothing that I may say can influence you," he said. "You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There is no Republican Party. There is no Democratic Party. There are no Republicans nor Democrats in this House. You are lick-spittlers and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy. You talk verbosely in antiquated terminology of your love of liberty, and all the while you wear the scarlet livery of the Iron Heel.”
Jack London, The Iron Heel

Czesław Miłosz
“The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling; whereas among the "criminals" one finds a singularly high percentage of people who are di­rect, sincere, and true to themselves. From the social point of view these persons would constitute the best guarantee that the future development of the social organism would be toward good. From the Christian point of view they have no other sin on their con­science save their contempt for Caesar, or their in­ correct evaluation of his might.”
Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind

Milton Friedman
“I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.”
Milton Friedman

George Bernard Shaw
“The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.”
George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

Victor Klemperer
“In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.”
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness 1933-41: A Diary of the Nazi Years

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