"Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude."

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Source : Richard Mitchell (1987). “The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian”, Fireside

Richard Mitchell

#School Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #People Quotes

“Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.”
“You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”
“Your character is the harvest of your habits.”
“Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.”
“As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.”
“Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.”
“The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.”
“There is a place where there is freedom of fear and doubt, and that is within.”

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