"Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government."

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Source : 1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

Aldous Huxley

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“It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.”
“The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.”

Source : Thomas E. Sniegoski (2012). “The Fallen: The Fallen 1; The Fallen 2; The Fallen 3”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.”
“You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.”
“See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. [] Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. [] Whatsoever [the bishop] shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.”
“For you, a thousand times over”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.110, A&C Black
“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.”
“I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.”

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