{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "slug": "anthem-pg1250",
  "title": "Anthem",
  "quotes": [
    {
      "text": "It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and\n to put them down upon a paper no others are to see."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know\n well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone."
    },
    {
      "text": "The laws say that none among men\n may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression\n and the root of all evil."
    },
    {
      "text": "WE ARE ONE IN ALL AND ALL IN ONE.\n\n THERE ARE NO MEN BUT ONLY THE GREAT WE,\n\n ONE, INDIVISIBLE AND FOREVER."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is not good to be different from our brothers, but\n it is evil to be superior to them."
    },
    {
      "text": "We preferred some work and some lessons to\n the others. We did not listen well to the history of all the Councils\n elected since the Great Rebirth."
    },
    {
      "text": "Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you\n leave the Home of the Students."
    },
    {
      "text": "the Council of Vocations knows in\n its great wisdom where you are needed by your brother men, better than you\n can know it in your unworthy little minds."
    },
    {
      "text": "We shall not report our find to the City Council. We shall not report it\n to any men."
    },
    {
      "text": "This place belongs to\n us, Equality 7-2521, and to no other men on earth."
    },
    {
      "text": "Rather would we\n die."
    },
    {
      "text": "Rather\n shall we be evil with you than good with all our brothers."
    },
    {
      "text": "We have learned things which are not in the scripts. We have solved\n secrets of which the Scholars have no knowledge."
    },
    {
      "text": "We wish nothing, save to be\n alone and to learn, and to feel as if with each day our sight were growing\n sharper than the hawk’s and clearer than rock crystal."
    },
    {
      "text": "The evil of our crime is not for the\n human mind to probe. The nature of our punishment, if it be discovered, is\n not for the human heart to ponder."
    },
    {
      "text": "And in our heart—strange\n are the ways of evil!—in our heart there is the first peace we have\n known in twenty years."
    },
    {
      "text": "We do not wonder at this new sin of ours. It is our second Transgression\n of Preference, for we do not think of all our brothers, as we must, but\n only of one,"
    },
    {
      "text": "It is\n forbidden, not to be happy. For, as it has been explained to us, men are\n free and the earth belongs to them; and all things on earth belong to all\n men; and the will of all men together is good for all; and so all men must\n be happy."
    },
    {
      "text": "There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and in the air of\n the streets. Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without\n shape."
    },
    {
      "text": "Our body is betraying us, for the Council of the Home looks with suspicion\n upon us. It is not good to feel too much joy nor to be glad that our body\n lives."
    },
    {
      "text": "We do not wish to look upon the Uncharted Forest. We do not wish to think\n of it. But ever do our eyes return to that black patch upon the sky."
    },
    {
      "text": "The words of the Evil Ones... The words of the Unmentionable Times... What\n are the words which we have lost?"
    },
    {
      "text": "There is no crime punished by death in\n this world, save this one crime of speaking the Unspeakable Word."
    },
    {
      "text": "And it seemed as\n if these eyes were trying to tell us something through the flames, to send\n into our eyes some word without sound. And it seemed as if these eyes were\n begging us to gather that word and not to let it go from us and from the\n earth."
    },
    {
      "text": "We know not what this power is nor whence it comes. But we know its\n nature, we have watched it and worked with it."
    },
    {
      "text": "We have fought\n against saying it, but now it is said. We do not care. We forget all men,\n all laws and all things save our metals and our wires."
    },
    {
      "text": "We made it. We created it. We brought it forth from the night of the ages.\n We alone. Our hands. Our mind. Ours alone and only."
    },
    {
      "text": "The power of the sky can be made\n to do men’s bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and\n it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask."
    },
    {
      "text": "What is not thought by all men cannot be true,"
    },
    {
      "text": "We have not built this box for the\n good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our\n brothers to us, and its truth above their truth."
    },
    {
      "text": "We are doomed. Whatever days are left to us, we shall spend them alone.\n And we have heard of the corruption to be found in solitude. We have torn\n ourselves from the truth which is our brother men, and there is no road\n back for us, and no redemption."
    },
    {
      "text": "Only the glass box in our arms is like a living heart that gives us\n strength."
    },
    {
      "text": "Everything which comes from the many is good. Everything which comes from\n one is evil."
    },
    {
      "text": "I am the warrant and the sanction."
    },
    {
      "text": "My happiness is not the means to any\n end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
    },
    {
      "text": "I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall\n deserve of me."
    },
    {
      "text": "I shall live my own truth."
    },
    {
      "text": "To be free, a man must be free of his brothers."
    },
    {
      "text": "Those men who survived those\n eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else\n to vindicate them—those men could neither carry on, nor preserve\n what they had received."
    },
    {
      "text": "Thus did all thought, all science, all wisdom\n perish on earth."
    },
    {
      "text": "Through all the darkness,\n through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will\n remain alive on this earth."
    },
    {
      "text": "It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear\n chains, but it will break through."
    },
    {
      "text": "And man will go on. Man, not men."
    },
    {
      "text": "For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen\n friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his\n honor."
    },
    {
      "text": "The word which will not die,\n should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this\n earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory."
    }
  ]
}