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“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”
― The Great Hunt
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”
― The Great Hunt
“...the solution to the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of the stateless and rightless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“every thought that deviates from the officially prescribed and permanently changing line is already suspect, no matter in which field of human activity it occurs. Simply because of their capacity to think, human beings are suspects by definition, and this suspicion cannot be diverted by exemplary behavior, for the human capacity to think is also a capacity to change one's mind.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“ANTISEMITISM, a secular nineteenth-century ideology—which in name, though not in argument, was unknown before the 1870’s—and religious Jew-hatred, inspired by the mutually hostile antagonism of two conflicting creeds, are obviously not the same;”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards.”
― A Lady's Lesson in Scandal
― A Lady's Lesson in Scandal
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