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“Those who believe Europe is for the world have never explained why this process should be one way: why Europeans going anywhere else in the world is colonialism whereas the rest of the world coming to Europe is just and fair.”
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
“When it comes to anti-fascism in most of Western Europe, there would appear for now to be a supply-and-demand problem: the demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply.”
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
“A people need defeat just as an individual needs suffering and misfortune: they compel the deepening of the inner life and generate a spiritual upsurge”
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
“Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.”
― The Gulag Archipelago
― The Gulag Archipelago
“But there is a limit, and beyond it one is no longer willing, one finds it too repulsive, to be a reasonable little rabbit. And that is the limit beyond which rabbits are enlightened by the common understanding that all rabbits are foredoomed to become only meat and pelts, and that at best, therefore, one can gain only a postponement of death and not life in any case.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
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