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Anthony Burgess

"Every dogma has its day."

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

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"I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle."

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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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"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

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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."

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"Never give a good politician time to pray."

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"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."

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"Democracy passes into despotism."

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"Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for."

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"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."
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"Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now."
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"People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know."
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"The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured."
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"Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up."
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"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
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