“Evil exists only when its known. Adam and Eve were public in their fall. To sin in private is not to sin at all”
― Tartuffe
― Tartuffe
“Only those can understand us who ate from the same bowl with us.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, Katorga: Exile; and Stalin is No More
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, Katorga: Exile; and Stalin is No More
“man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.)”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“He there experienced that the most absolute power is a weak defence against the effects of despair.”
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
― The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
“Complex organs evolve by small steps for the same reason that a watchmaker does not use a sledgehammer and a surgeon does not use a meat cleaver.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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