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The Virtue of Disloyalty 8Paine 9

 

It has always been in the interests of the State to poison the psychological wells, to encourage cat-calls, to restrict human sympathy. It makes government easier when the people shout Galilean, Papist, Fascist, Communist.... Thomas Paine wrote, "We must guard even our enemies against injustice."
-- Graham Greene. "The Virtue of Disloyalty", an address given by Greene, June 6, 1969, upon the award of the Shakespeare prize by the University of Hamburg.
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