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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."
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"Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!"
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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."
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"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."
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"This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff."
Society
"The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations."
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"Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends."
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"Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to."
People
"I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation."
Pressure
"People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people."
People
"My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else."
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"As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers."
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"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses."
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