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"I must confess that I am unable to appreciate the merits of Confucius. His writings are largely occupied with trivial points of etiquette, and his main concern is to teach people how to behave correct…"

"A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood."

"A congress of the powers is deceit agreed on between diplomats — it is the pen of Machiavelli combined with the scimitar of Mahomet."

"Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere."

"Sciences are like powerful drugs, which suit the strong and exhaust the weak. Likewise, complex sciences enrich a vigorous mind, and keep it off evil, but exhaust the mediocre mind."

"The mere suggestion that it might be possible to look at a thing from more than one point of view was infuriating to these people."

"The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves."

"Do you have a brain? Then use it. It's all you need to overcome any problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world."

"The governor has taken some last ditch measures to try and present himself as bipartisan. But his denial will not be winning any fans here! He is going to be up to the business of lying, of course. Af…"

"We are in favour of the withering away of the state, and at the same time we stand for the strengthening of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which represents the most powerful and mighty of all fo…"

"How can I pray for you," she said, "when I am forbidden to believe that the great Power who moves the world would alter His plans on my account?"

"has succeeded in turning the concept of world and life as dream into a subtle but powerful theory of fiction that he uses constantly to confound his reader's sense of reality."

"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed."

"The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down."

"The general theory of economic equilibrium was strengthened and made effective as an organon of thought by two powerful subsidiary conceptions — the Margin and Substitution. The notion of the Margin w…"

"There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange."

"The guerrilla is the combat vanguard of the people, situated in a specified place in a certain region, armed and willing to carry out a series of warlike actions for the one possible strategic end — t…"

"The real revolution has already largely taken place; the great majority of stockholders have been deprived of control of their property through the diffusion of ownership and the growth in the power o…"

"People have such a low opinion of Congress that they keep sending bad members... to Washington, but withdraw... they become cynical... instead of becoming angry and moving to take control of Congress.…"

"It gives me great confidence and pride to think that, had the Israelites been influenced by German engineering, Paul and Timothy might have journeyed in an old Volkswagen camping van."