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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
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"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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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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"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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"The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency."
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"Politics doesn't mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
Peace
"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
Creativity
"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
Civilization
"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."
Hurt
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
History
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
Marriage
"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
Power
"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."
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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
Politics
"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
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