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The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive…

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is… — Robert H. Jackson
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct… — Jacques Ellul
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. — Sidney Hook
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of… — Richard M. Nixon
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,… — Richard M. Nixon
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright
And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again. — George Orwell
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic… — George Orwell

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