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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
"My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize."
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