"The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue."
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"An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human."
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"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."
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"If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author."
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"To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”"
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"Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul."
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"It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best."
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"I say that justice is truth in action."
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"A majority is always better than the best repartee."
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"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
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"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power."
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"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."
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"A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor."
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"I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you work alone. Movies have to go under so much scrutiny. A stand-up special is a vision, and a movie is a consensus in a lot of ways."
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"If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument."
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"Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist."
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"Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy."
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"Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population."
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"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
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"For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom."
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