Bounds Quote by Pete Postlethwaite

The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of…

— Jean Francois Revel

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

— John Derbyshire

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

— Whitfield Diffie

“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The methods may…

— C.S. Lewis

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

— Isaiah Berlin

“They can kill, harm, exile, imprison, destroy/ defame a person but not an idea. They can co-opt/ corrupt a person but not an idea.…

— Jeroninio Almeida

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

— Stephanie Coontz

I read biographies of people I think have either done excellent work or achieved a lot, and the common theme seems to be that…

— Patrick Cantlay

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a…

— Felix Adler

“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

— Mario Vargas Llosa