"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Barack Obama, American President

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"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."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."

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"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."

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"Insults are the business of the court."

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"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."

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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."

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"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."

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"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."

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"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."

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"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."

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"I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle."

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