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"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."

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"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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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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"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace."

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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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