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Derek R. Audette: Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5425




Richard Sorge: I created the impression of being a playboy, almost a wastrel, the very antithesis of a keen and dangerous spy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5427



Richard Sorge: Dear Comrade! Don't worry about us. Although we are terribly tired and tense, nevertheless we are disciplined, obedient, decisive and devoted fellows who are ready to carry out the tasks connected with our great mission. I send sincere greetings to you and your friends. I request you to forward the attached letter and greetings to my wife. Please, take the time to see to her welfare. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5428




Carl Bernstein: Somehow, amidst the Bonds and Smiley's People, we have ignored the greatest of 20th century spy stories – that of Stalin's Sorge, whose exploits helped change history. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5431


Larry Collins: Richard Sorge's brilliant espionage work saved Stalin and the Soviet Union from defeat in the fall of 1941, probably prevented a Nazi victory in World War II and thereby assured the dimensions of the world we live in today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5432


Frederick Forsyth: The spies in history who can say from their graves, the information I supplied to my masters, for better or worse, altered the history of our planet, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Richard Sorge was in that group. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5433


Mary Oliver: We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5434



Robert Oppenheimer: By using this type of weapon for the first time, we align ourselves with the barbarians of the early ages. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5435



David Hume: The human sacrifices of the Carthaginians, Mexicans, and many barbarous nations, scarcely exceed the Inquisition and persecutions of Rome and Madrid. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5436






Samuel Johnson: Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5440


Samuel Johnson: (T)hey who complain, in peace, of the insolence of the populace, must remember, that their insolence in peace is bravery in war. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5441






Samuel Johnson: Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5445



Samuel Johnson: Ignorance in other men may be censured as idleness, in an academick it must be abhorred as treachery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5446


Samuel Johnson: A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5447


Samuel Johnson: It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5448



Samuel Johnson: The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5450