Monday, August 22, 2022

Every time you silence someone you make yourself a prisoner of your own action, because you deny yourself the right to hear something


 -- Christopher Hitchens, in

Fire in a Crowded Theatre 

. . . from David Irving’s edition of the Goebbels Diaries . . . I learned more about the Third Reich than I had from studying Hugh Trevor­ Roper and A. J. B. Taylor combined when I was at Oxford.