Megi Benia

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“ყოველი დროის ცილისმწამებლებს კარგად სცოდნიათ, რომ ადამიანის უსასტიკესი დასჯა მხოლოდ მაშინ ხდება, როცა მას სწორედ იმაში დასდებენ ბრალს, რის წანააღმდეგაც თავად იბრძვის იგი.”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, მთვარის მოტაცება

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“To Buckley, she embodied the worst of what in subsequent decades would be called political correctness: the mindless application to every issue of a platitudinous egalitarianism whose practical effect invariably is to expand the reach of totalitarianism.”
― William F. Buckley Jr., A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century

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“Liberals don’t care what you do so long as it’s compulsory.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

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“But how reassuring it was for us, you remember, every now and then (“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”), to vibrate to the music of the very heartstrings of the Leader of the Free World who, to qualify convincingly as such, had after all to feel a total commitment to the Free World.”
― William F. Buckley Jr., A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century

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“Ladies and Gentlemen, we deem it the central revelation of Western experience that man cannot ineradicably stain himself, for the wells of regeneration are infinitely deep. No temple has ever been so profaned that it cannot be purified; no man is ever truly lost; no nation is irrevocably dishonored. Khrushchev cannot take permanent advantage of our temporary disadvantage, for it is the West he is fighting. And in the West there lie, however encysted, the ultimate resources, which are moral in nature. Khrushchev is not aware that the gates of hell shall not prevail against us. Even out of the depths of despair, we take heart in the knowledge that it cannot matter how deep we fall, for there is always hope. In the end, we will bury him.”
― William F. Buckley Jr., Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches

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