"Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege."
"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."
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Source: Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”
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