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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10724/">The real stumbling-block of totalitarian r?gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7585/">Weil, Simone</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/despotism/">despotism</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>