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Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

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Semi-obvious but bears repeating: Much of the evil in the world comes from seeing and judging people as members of groups rather than individuals.

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy.

The far-right and far-left can be equally insane.

Politics is history in the present tense.

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.

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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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