In return for their faithful service, they would receive Red Army food rations, which amounted to a generous ladle, twice daily, from a cauldron into which all appropriated food was thrown. The stew boiled twenty-four hours a day, a fatty broth of onions, roosters, rabbits, dead horse, turnips - whatever they happened on in the course of their collecting forays - the Red Army essentially lived off the countryside. Alan Furst
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
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Norman Mailer
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
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Murray N. Rothbard
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
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Stefan Molyneux
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens — tax livestock — labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
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Stefan Molyneux
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Fulton J. Sheen
More Quotes By Alan Furst
For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once...
Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.
A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.
Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.
But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold
