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"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
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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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"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
Politics
"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."
Fool
"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party."
Writing
"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
Art
"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."
Man
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
Night
"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it."
Family
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
Conviction
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
Education
"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."
Writing
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