
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- Topic: Society
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.
