"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard."

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"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard."

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"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."

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"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

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"If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum."

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"If not me, who? And if not now, when?"

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"I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life."

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"Democracy must learn to defend itself."

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"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'"

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"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."

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"Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out."

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"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."

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"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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