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"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."

"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."

"Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest."

"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."

"Oppression is opposition."
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"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."

"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."

"Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned."

"I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics."

"Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants."

"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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