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A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

— Gilles Deleuze

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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962)

There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

Evaluations, in essence, are… ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962)

One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.

Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962)

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

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James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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