Everyone had gone to school with someone’s brother or known each other up at Cambridge. These were serious young leftist intellectuals, many of them communists devoted to the idea of a classless society, but they were also upper class and English and so almost unconsciously sought out others of their kind and mixed with them, while the working-class youth stood alone just outside the perimeter of this charmed circle, coming as close as he dared, barred from entry by an invisible boundary of accent. David Leavitt
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
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I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me that was pure and perfect and yet it was bled with despair - as if I had been handed a...
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then...
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.
They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.
