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The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definit...

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Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant sto...

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Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit...

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H. L. MenckenThe American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among...

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I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could s...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Amo...

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James MadisonNotes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A sla...

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The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A sla...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

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The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...

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Karl MarxThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of...

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They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words,...

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Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a t...

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Thus we arrive at the problem of the relation of religion to the negation of sexual desire. Sexual d...

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The reactionary of any kind condemns sexual pleasure because it stimulates and repulses him at the s...

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The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of t...

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The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot b...

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I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I...

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Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the lo...

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It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into diffic...

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Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under obser...

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Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs...

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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and li...

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George OrwellThe Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell