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"If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet."
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!["If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
War
"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
Age
"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
Man
"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
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"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
Man
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
Evil
"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
Man
"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
Life
"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It's intellectual masturbation."
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"Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!"
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"You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can only imitate and sell. Middlemen.' He fixed his merciless scrutiny on Frink.'Maybe so,' Frink said."
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"Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian."
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"There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them."
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"Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors."
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"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
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"Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity."
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"Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile."
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"All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth."
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