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The Dispossessed | Quotes

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The Dispossessed Quotes

"To lock out, to lock in, the same act." (Ch. 1, p. 9)

"Well, you have me...You have your anarchist. What are you going to do with him?" (Ch. 1, p. 20)

"Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of disobedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?" (Ch. 2, p. 36)

"If you found a pack of explosives in the street would you 'share' them with every kid that went by? Those books are explosives." (Ch. 4, p. 85)

"I confess to being proud of you. That's strange, isn't it? Unreasonable. Propertarian, even. As if you were something that belonged to me. But as one gets older one needs certain reassurances that aren't, always, entirely reasonable. In order to go on at...
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