Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.
~ René Daumal
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Chicago 1968 taught one how close any civilized country is to berserkness at all times; also how terrorism, even silly terrorism, strengthens the cops more than anyone.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
~ George Orwell
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
~ George Orwell
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Thoughts are thoughts and that’s all they are.
~ Walter Kirn
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
~ Che Guevara
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual’s identification with a group.
~ Eric Hoffer
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