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"Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity."
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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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"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
Chaos
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
Government
"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."
Lie
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
Truth
"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."
Religion
"Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice."
Ethics
"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."
Man
"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
Concern
"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
Education
"Freedom meant one thing to him-home.But they wouldn't let him go home."
Growth
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