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"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."
George Orwell, 1984
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"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
Ernest Hemingway
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
Voltaire
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below."
Roger Baldwin
"You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney
"I have always claimed Americans didn’t want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one."
Will Rogers
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."
Bishop Desmond Tutu, You Said a Mouthful
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
