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"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
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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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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
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"It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
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"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
Control
"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
Politics
"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
Humor
"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
People
"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
Reality
"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
Politics
"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
Experience
"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."
Character
"When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York."
Time
"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever."
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