"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."

-- Herbert Hoover

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“The Germans tend to like to blame the Nazi experience on one man who can be scapegoated. If you pile all the blame onto him, you exonerate the German masses from any responsibility.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question as I revealed before the court but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.”

Source : "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 334), 1984.
“You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.”
“Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.”

Source : William Peter Blatty (1971). “The Exorcist”
“It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.”

Source : Thomas Young (1798). “An Essay on Humanity to Animals”, p.90
“When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.”
“In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.”
“Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”

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