"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."

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"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

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

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

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"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."

"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."

"Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!"

"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies."

"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life."

"Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin."

"Envy is an insult to oneself."