Bryan

“There are a lot of things we don’t want to know about the people we love.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“I think television with two channels - one on a political speech, on the other a Russian film -- must be the cheapest and most inhuman means to effectively make people stupid.”
― Iva Pekárková, Truck Stop Rainbows

“A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code. In a totalitarian state there are no independent schools, no private businesses, no grassroots organizations, and no critical thought.”
― Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

“Since then, many have tried to describe what it feels like to endure the disintegration of one’s entire civilization, to watch the buildings and landscapes of one’s childhood collapse, to understand that the moral world of one’s parents and teachers no longer exists and that one’s respected national leaders have failed.”
― Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956