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""It is true that Orwell was one of the founding fathers of anti-Communism; that he had a strong patriotic sense and a very potent instinct for what we might call elementary right and wrong; that he despised government and bureaucracy and was a stout individualist; that he distrusted intellectuals and academics and reposed faith in popular wisdom..."" — Jul 12, 2020 07:04PM
""It is true that Orwell was one of the founding fathers of anti-Communism; that he had a strong patriotic sense and a very potent instinct for what we might call elementary right and wrong; that he despised government and bureaucracy and was a stout individualist; that he distrusted intellectuals and academics and reposed faith in popular wisdom..."" — Jul 12, 2020 07:04PM


“Nuclear weapons could bring about the Book of Revelation in a matter of hours; they could do it today. Of course, no dead will rise; nothing will be revealed (nothing meaning two things, the absence of everything and a thing called nothing). Events that we call "acts of God"--floods, earthquakes, eruptions--are flesh wounds compared to the human act of nuclear war: a million Hiroshimas. Like God, nuclear weapons are free creations of the human mind. Unlike God, nuclear weapons are real. And they are here.”
― Einstein's Monsters
― Einstein's Monsters

“An artist doesn't really owe anybody anything...You don't have to be politically correct. You don't have to be nice. You don't have to write things that are morally uplifting. All you have to do is write, or create, something that is great.”
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“A Man Said to the Universe
A man said to the universe:
鈥淪ir, I exist!鈥
鈥淗owever,鈥 replied the universe,
鈥淭he fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
― War Is Kind and Other Poems
A man said to the universe:
鈥淪ir, I exist!鈥
鈥淗owever,鈥 replied the universe,
鈥淭he fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
― War Is Kind and Other Poems

“Finally: I'm bored, and I constantly do nothing. And writing things down really seems like work. They say work makes a man good and honest. Well, here's a chance, at least.”
― Notes From Underground
― Notes From Underground

“There鈥檚 a kind of theology at work here. The bombs are a kind of god. As his power grows, our fear naturally increases. I get as apprehensive as anyone else, maybe more so. We have too many bombs. They have too many bombs. There鈥檚 a kind of theology of fear that comes out of this. We begin to capitulate to the overwhelming presence. It鈥檚 so powerful. It dwarfs us so much. We say let the god have his way. He鈥檚 so much more powerful than we are. Let it happen, whatever he ordains. It used to be that the gods punished men by using the forces of nature against them or by arousing them to take up their weapons and destroy each other. Now god is the force of nature itself, the fusion of tritium and deuterium. Now he鈥檚 the weapon. So maybe this time we went too far in creating a being of omnipotent power. All this hardware. Fantastic stockpiles of hardware. The big danger is that we鈥檒l surrender to the sense of inevitability and start flinging mud all over the planet.”
― End Zone
― End Zone

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