“This is not a new world—it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it—it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.”
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From Twilight Zone episode "The Obsolete Man," Season 2, Episode 29.
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