“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
