"Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first."

Culture, Art, Politics, Suppression, Freedom

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"Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first."

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"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

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"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."

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"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."

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"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."

Alexander McCall Smith, British Author

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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights."

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"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."

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"Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not."

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"Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking."

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"Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away."

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"History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction."

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"If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil."

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"The term "totalitarian" was derived from Adolf Hitler's "Total State", which was a "craddle to grave" solution that sought to micro-manage all aspects of humanity."

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"The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport."

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