“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”
― A Soviet Heretic: Essays
― A Soviet Heretic: Essays
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Collected Essays
― Collected Essays
“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
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“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― A Confession
― A Confession
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