But they say you should experience everything once, save incest and the plague.�


“If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.”
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“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
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“Oh, don't be so wise and stupid.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters

“When it comes to anti-fascism in most of Western Europe, there would appear for now to be a supply-and-demand problem: the demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply.”
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
― The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“This was possible only because the anti-slavery movement coincided with an era in which Western power and hegemony were at their zenith, so that it was essentially European imperialism which ended slavery. This idea might seem shocking, not because it does not fit the facts, but because it does not fit the prevailing vision of our time.”
― Black Rednecks & White Liberals
― Black Rednecks & White Liberals
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