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Antonio Gramsci
“The discipline imposed on citizens by the bourgeois state makes them into subjects, people who delude themselves that they exert an influence on the course of events.”
Antonio Gramsci, The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935

Walter  Scott
“Sleep, like other earthly blessings, is niggard of its favours when most courted.”
Walter Scott, The Abbot

Walter  Scott
“As every reader has experienced who may have chanced to be in such a situation, it is extremely difficult to maintain the full dignity of an offended person, in the presence of a beautiful girl, whatever reason we may have for being angry with her.”
Walter Scott, The Abbot

Gore Vidal
“It is infinitely harder to ask questions in such a way that the audience is led not to the answers (the province of the demagogue) but to new perceptions.”
Gore Vidal, The Best Man

Gore Vidal
“But a country which can be saved only by money is a lost country anyway. After all, what is the choice, really? On the one hand: catastrophic capitalism, and on the other a capital catastrophe.”
Gore Vidal, Romulus

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