As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
— Thomas SowellThe village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...No special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71.
— Vladimir Nabokov