No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. (Milan Kundera)

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Milan Kundera

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