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"There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the Germans. No lie can be conceived treacherous enough, the Germans believe it. They follow a slogan which was given to them, to act against their own countrymen, rather than the real enemies of their country." Napoleon Bonaparte
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"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." Jean-Claude Juncker
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"The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man." Hannah Arendt
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"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." Emile Zola
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"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice." Gore Vidal
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"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you." Carl Gustav Jung
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"If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: 'I am fascism.' It will say: 'I am antifascism.'" Ignazio Silone
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"American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor." Upton Sinclair
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"Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu (South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu—ed.) before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal." Henry Kissinger
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"Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it." Friedrich Dürrenmatt