"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment."

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"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment."

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that."

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"The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young."

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"What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"

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"Psychiatry causes so much death."

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"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."

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