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"When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny."
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be."
"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."
"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
"I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate."
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
"It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government."
"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
"Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation."
"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable."
"The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots."
"When people cease to complain, they cease to think."
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
"There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective."
"Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life."
"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being."
"In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours."
