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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. Never ask anything of anyone, they used to say. … In those days a workman did not know what it was to solicit. It is the bourgeoisie who, turning the workmen into bourgeois, have taught them to solicit.
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)