“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days … Should one point out that from ancient times declining courage has been considered the beginning of the end?”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke
In other words: Snowflakes will not embrace freedom.
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” … our particular problem in the present day … is an overwhelming tendency toward conformity … In such times ethics tend more and more to be identified with obedience. One is ‘good’ to the extent that one obeys the dictates of society … It is as though the more unquestioning obedience the better.”
— Rollo May, writing decades ago with perfect clarity about the reality of 2022 in America, and everywhere else
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“The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.”
— Mark Twain
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