The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Love is not my bag.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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