"Anyone desiring a quiet [non-public] life has done badly to be born in the twentieth century."
Leon Trotsky
"The fundamental difference between the liberal and the illiberal outlook is that the former regards all questions as open to discussion and all opinions as open to a greater or lesser measure of doubt, while the latter holds in advance that certain opinions are absolutely unquestionable, and that no argument against them must be allowed be heard. What is curious about this position is the belief that if impartial investigation were permitted it would lead men to the wrong conclusion, and that ignorance is, therfore, the only safeguard against terror. This point of view cannot be accepted by any man who wishes reason rather than prejudice to govern human action."
Bertrand Russell
Freedom and the Colleges"Freedom is a bourgeois prejudice."
V.I. Lenin
"I know the truth - give up all other truths!"
by Marina Tsvetayeva
| I know the truth - give up all other truths! No need for people anywhere on earth to struggle. Look - it is evening, look, it is nearly night: what do you speak of, poets, lovers, generals? The wind is level now, the earth is wet with dew, |
