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"The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes."
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"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."

"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

"He wanted to grind every Federation world into dust beneath his boot as his army blazed a trail of blood and corpses all the way to Seneca.He wanted to storm their inner sanctum and fire a laser into the skull of their Field Marshal while their Chairman watched, then fire a laser into the skull of their Chairman.He wanted to burn their bodies on a pyre and carry the ashes back to Deucali and spread them on his mother's consecrated grave."

"A few days earlier, in front of his guests at his own birthday celebration, this man had started smashing his own crockery and tearing his and his wife's clothes, because he was not offered enough vodka; then he went on to break every stick of furniture in his house and smash all the windows, and he did it all for the "beauty" of the gesture, as Mr. Karamazov had just now."

"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."

"Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine."

"Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression."

"To Kalist, Baumauer's just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire."

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
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"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."

"Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible."

"Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes."

"We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant."

"The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes."
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