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"The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism."
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"Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work."

"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."

"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom."
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"Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."

"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."

"Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else."

"The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight."

"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."

"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting."

"A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients."
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