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"Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated."
"You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand.""
"People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him."
"You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations."
"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."
"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."
"Everything popular is wrong."
"To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual."
"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)"
"Writing is a political instrument."
"I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going."
"You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that."
"A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today"
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
"[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them."
"Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority."
"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
"Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way out here.' And you know, you say, 'Well, maybe one day you'll see the light but I'm glad to be out here with you.'"
"We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them."
