To say ''I accept'' in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.
Quotes about purges (4 Quotes)
Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
Dear Doctor, I have read your play, Which is a good one in its way, - Purges the eyes and moves the bowels, And drenches handkerchiefs like towels.
I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.