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“What constitutes a civil society? At minimum, it is a place where ideas, of all kinds, can be criticized without the risk of physical violence. If you live in a land where certain things cannot be said about the king, or about an imaginary being, or about certain books, because such utterances carry the penalty of death, torture, or imprisonment, you do not live in a civil society. It”
― The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
― The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
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“To the Framers, a “republic” meant what we today call a democracy: a system where the people elect their representatives, who then write and vote on laws.”
― Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
― Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
“For Calhoun, minority rights were a cloak for the interests of the wealthy, the powerful, and most of all, the white supremacist.”
― Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
― Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
“It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.”
― A Rulebook for Arguments
― A Rulebook for Arguments
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