QUOTES: From my George Kennan book on the 1960s Left:
"It is obvious that students, like Marxists, acutely dislike the feeling of being outflanked to the left."
"Behind this modesty, after all, there has been the recognition of a vitally important truth-- a truth that the Marxists, among others, have never brought themselves to recognize-- namely, that the decisive seat of evil in this world is not in social and political institutions, and not even, as a rule, in the will or iniquities of statesmen, but simply in the weakness and imperfection of the human soul itself, and by that I mean literally every soul, including my own and that of the student militant at the gates."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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