“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
