The utopia of socialism with a human face has been crushed everywhere even before it could be born. How distressing that becoming humane, which should be the least we could expect from a regime dedicated to liberating humanity, should present for socialism a problem as impossible as squaring the circle.
~ Jean-François Revel
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than of deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
~ Eric Hoffer
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This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
~ Walter Kirn
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
~ Janet Malcolm
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It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
~ Haruki Murakami
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The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist—almost fascist—society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
~ Jean-François Revel
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
~ Anton Chekhov
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