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