“For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
