The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling; whereas among the "criminals" one finds a singularly high percentage of people who are direct, sincere, and true to themselves-Czesław Miłosz
Friday, December 28, 2012
"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
"The
greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the
greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded" - Leo Tolstoy
"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die." - Jean Paul Sartre 1905-1980 French philosopher
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