"Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that……" — Stephen Vizinczey
"Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you"
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Stephen Vizinczey
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21 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey has 21 quotes on this site.
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said…
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the…
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You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently…
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality:…
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
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Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked…
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but…
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the…
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
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