“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”
Source: Right Behind You
"On Pilgrimage," Catholic Worker (December 1968)
Context: I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky … by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”
Source: Right Behind You
Source: McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
“reading is at the beginning of the social contract”
The Last Page, p. 7.
A History of Reading (1996)
“Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 395)
(1847)
“I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.”
I Believe
As quoted in Men in Motion, Henry J. Taylor, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York: NY, (1944) p. 59. Also quoted in As We Go Marching, John T. Flynn, New York: NY, Free Life Edition (1973) p. 154, first published 1944 https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/As%20We%20Go%20Marching_2.pdf
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