"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."

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Source : "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#Organization Quotes #Soul Quotes #Conformity Quotes

“You must have respect for those who tell you the truth about you, no matter how hard it is”
“Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.”

Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.35, Lexington Books
“I like to think that I gave Jack Warner Brothers inking and Joe Sinnott gave him MGM inking. If you're not as in love with old movies as I am you might not make that connection, but I can see that connection.”
“I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.”
“When I did find guys with whom I was very sexually compatible, trying to figure out how romance worked... when you're a gay guy you don't necessarily have that same push to make a conventional relationship work.”

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“In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be producedâ€¦ a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted.”

Source : "Knowledge of Life".
“If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.”
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”

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