"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

Stephen Harper, Canadian Politician

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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."

Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist

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"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

Marcy Kaptur, American Politician

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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

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"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years."

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"Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing."

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"The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart."

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"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."

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"There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."

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"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."

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"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."

"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

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"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years."

"Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing."

"The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart."

"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."

"There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."

"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."