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Repressive Tolerance
The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.
Herbert Marcuse, Beacon Press, 1965
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Politics and the English Language
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.
George Orwell,
Horizon, 1 April 1946
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Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art
True art, which is not content to play variations on ready-made models but rather insists on expressing the inner needs of man and mankind in its time--true art is unable not to be revolutionary, not to aspire to a complete and radical reconstruction of society.
Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky, Generation Online, 1938
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The transformation of the superstructure, which takes place far more slowly than that of the substructure, has taken more than half a century to manifest in all areas of culture the change in the conditions of production. Only today can it be indicated what form this has taken.
Walter Benjamin, Marxists.org, 1936
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On the Shortness of Life
'The life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it.'
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Loeb Classical Library, 1932
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Tradition and the Individual Talent
In English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. We cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition”; at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of So-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
T.S. Eliot,
quotidiana.org, 1920
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