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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

"Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."

"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"
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"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."

"Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity."

"It's only on a black day that you begin to have friends."

"This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.But unfortunately for Communism, this policy ran up against the American atomic bomb in 1945. Then the Communists changed their tactics and suddenly became advocates of peace at any cost."

"No zek had the right to stay one second in his workroom without the supervision of a free employee because prudence dictated that the prisoner would be bound to use that unsupervised second to break into the steel safe with a lead pencil, photograph its secret documents with a trouser button, explode an atom bomb, and fly to the moon."

"In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objective resistance, that's marvelous!"

"The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them."

"Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason."
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