The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

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People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. ― Josef Stalin

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I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people.

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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

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People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

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Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time. ― Jandy Nelson

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Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur

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People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. ― Anne Frank

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