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"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
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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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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."
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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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"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
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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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"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
Language
"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
Nation
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
World
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
Being
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
Attitude
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
Content
"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
Life
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
World
"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
Politics
"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
Creativity
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