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Quotes from The Intellectual Student’s Guide to Survival — Phillip Abbott Luce

1935–1998

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If the communist theories and philosophies are so rational and humanitarian, and if, as they contend, man is basically both rational and humanitarian, why have bloody violence and force been necessary to gain their ends?

The Intellectual Student’s Guide to Survival (1968)

But where communism is really unique is in its ability to convince reasonably intelligent people that its tyranny is somehow different, and that anyone silly enough to question the suppression of human and political rights in a communist state is some kind of a right-wing lunatic.

The Intellectual Student’s Guide to Survival (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Phillip Abbott Luce (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.