"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside."

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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

Allan Bloom

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“America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.”
“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.”
“The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.”
“Heaven is a person: Jesus.”
“Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.”
“Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.”
“Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.”

Source : "Harriet the Spy".
“Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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