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Quotes from The Never-Ending Wrong — Katherine Anne Porter

1890–1980 United States

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There is the frightful possibility in all such trials as these that the judgment has already been pronounced and the trial is just a mask for murder.

The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

These are trials in which the judge, the counsel, the jury, and the witnesses are the criminals, not the accused.

The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

She finally came to admit sadly that the human race in its weakness demanded government and all government was evil because human nature was basically weak and weakness is evil.

The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

This is not new — all the history of our world is pocked with it. It is very grand and noble in words and grand, noble souls have died for it — it is worth weeping for.

The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

The State goes on without end in one form or another, built securely on the base of destruction. Nietzsche said: "The State is the coldest of all cold monsters," and the revolutions which destroy or weaken at least one monster bring to birth and growth another.

The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Katherine Anne Porter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.