“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable "vice" of Jewishness was dangerous… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed.” — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“… the Nazis, without admitting it, learned as much from American gangster organizations as their propaganda, admittedly, learned from American business publicity.” — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not only she but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The absolute monarch was supposed to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, to be the visible exponent and proof… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end. I observed that while Dumas… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In other words, if a patent forgery like the " Protocols of the Elders of Zion " is believed by so many… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Wherever they went—Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland—a furnished house, villa, or apartment awaited the young couple. And their philosophies of life… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Finally, he gave up trying to quiet her and lit a cigarette, the last resort of a man who finds himself in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Ah, Princess," Dallben said, with a furrowed smile, "a crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“...I began pulling out old pictures and yearbooks from our Los Angeles high schools and UC Berkeley. Suddenly there we were, thousands… — Elise Frances Miller Copy Share Image
