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Religion, he declares, is based primarily and mainly on fear—fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, and fear of death. Fear, Bertrand Russell says, is the parent of cruelty, and it is therefore no wonder that cruelty and religion have gone ...more
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Joseph Conrad
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Samuel Beckett
“We live on earth and there is no cure”
Samuel Beckett

Winston S. Churchill
“A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgment baffled by its perversion”
Winston S. Churchill, The Birth of Britain

Aldous Huxley
“I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Ignazio Silone
“But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.”
Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

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