“Indeed, I greatly fear that for most of our people those implanted "humanitarian" hallucinations are so deep and inveterate that they can be broken, if at all, only by the terrible shock of physical suffering. And that they will surely receive.”

— Revilo P. Oliver

"What We Owe Our Parasites", speech (June 1968); Free Speech magazine (October and November 1995)
1960s

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