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“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”

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Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
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“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

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Author:George Jean Nathan
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“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

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Book:Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality
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“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

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Book:Parliament of Whores-Open Mark
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“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”

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Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
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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.”

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Author:George Orwell
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“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

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Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944
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“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”

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Book:The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell
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“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

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Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
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