As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs on my wrists and remembered the physical suffering and mental anguish I had endured while fighting with all the willpower and intellect God had given me for that rare and elusive thing in a Communist country called justice. Pg. 351 Nien Cheng
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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