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“The whole world," he said, "is going Radical again. Fundamentally. In religion. In politics. In law. The Common Man has been trying to get his Radicalism said and done plainly and clearly for a hun...”
“Look at the way people have swung through Communism, Toryism, Liberalism -- in vast blocks. In my father's boyhood you were either a Liberal or a Conservative in England, and there you stuck, and i...”
“In addition, I had the greatest interest in anything connected with politics, but this did not seem to me very significant. On the contrary: in my eyes, this was the self-evident duty of every thin...”
“In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.”
“Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.”
“One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.”
“Maybe Trünicht was to society what a cancer cell could be to the body—consuming the healthy cells’ nutrition so that it alone would multiply, grow stronger and bigger, and at last kill its host. Tr...”
“The liberal press cannot question the basic doctrine of the state religion, that the United States is benevolent, even though often misguided in its innocence, that it labors to permit free choice,...”
“Oh for ’Shael’s sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn’t lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It’s buil...”
“and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth”
“A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.”
“. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.- President Abraham Lincoln, G...”
“As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all me...”
“I am a man, and as foolish and weak as most men; if I have had an advantage over my fellows, it is that I have known this of myself, and have therefore known their weaknesses, and never presumed to...”
“Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.”
“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change t...”
“Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”
“For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.”
“Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.”
“If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
