This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
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George Orwell
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
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Philip Pullman
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or...
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John Stuart Mill
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
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Ayn Rand
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though...
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John Stuart Mill
More Quotes By John A. Williams
Novelists would do well to remember that when the works of the scholar-historians create doubt in the researcher’s mind, the researcher then turns to literature as a primary source for confirmation or correction. If the truth of a time, a people, a state is not...
, Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmares–most ordinary–so ordinary that you can’t believe the brains behind them capable of genocide.
, It must be pretty awful for a white man to learn that one of the things wrong with this society is that it is not based on dollars directly or alone, but dollars denied men who are black so dollars can go into the...
The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.
