"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

-- Plato

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“I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.”
“Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word out!”

Source : "Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth" by Gitta Sereny, (p. 573), 1996.
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?”
“I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.”
“If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.”
“For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria
“Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.”

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