“[…] if we were to find ourselves with a single religion tomorrow, it is likely that there would be two the day after.”

Source: The Song of Achilles

Source: Gone with the Wind

Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
Context: Whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch. When I say “totalitarian,” what I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be banished for life: every display of individualism (because a deviation from the collective is a spit in the eye of the smiling brotherhood); every doubt (because anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself); all irony (because in the realm of kitsch everything must be taken quite seriously); and the mother who abandons her family or the man who prefers men to women, thereby calling into question the holy decree “Be fruitful and multiply.”

Source: The Cloudspotter's Guide

Mao, 1967, as quoted by Jing Huang in The Role of Government Propaganda in the Educational System during the Cultural Revolution in China http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cultural-Revolution-in-China-paper.pdf.

Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 16

"Love Will Find A Way" (1968); written with Jimmy Holiday and Randy Myers