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“We like to take our anger out on those who are weaker, those who cannot answer. It is a human trait. And somehow the arguments to prove we are right appear out of nowhere.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
“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
“In such a view of society, however greatly you might wish to benefit from an endless supply of cheap labour, a wider range of cuisine or the salving of a generation’s conscience, you still would not have a right to wholly transform your society. Because that which you inherited that is good should also be passed on. Even were you to decide that some of the views or lifestyles of your ancestors could be improved upon, it does not follow that you should hand over to the next generation a society that is chaotic, fractured and unrecognisable.”
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
“But what depths of enforced ignorance were achieved by the monstrous lies of the state. Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of the truth into which our own snout has blundered”
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
“One thing is absolutely definite: not everything that enters our ears penetrates our consciousness. Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost”
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
― The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
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