One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

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I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here? -Alexei Navalny

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People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.' -Alexei Navalny

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I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona. -MF Doom

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if you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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Freedom without limits is just a word. - Terry Pratchett

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Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.

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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ― George Orwell

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Without fear there cannot be courage. ― Christopher Paolini

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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