"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."

Politics, Citizenship, Occupation, Opinion

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"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."

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"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives."

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"There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on."

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"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."

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"Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation."

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"In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen."

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"I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started."

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"Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit."

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"Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy."

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"After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat."

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"Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps."

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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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