"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach."
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"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
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"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."
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"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."
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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself."
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"I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations."
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"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
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"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."
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"World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields."
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"I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense."
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"A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness."
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"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil."
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"The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious."
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"I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense."
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"In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors."
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"The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup."
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"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
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"Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it."
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