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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

— Lester B. Pearson a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tribute (1972)

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Things can be done under the incentive of terror and fear that can not be done when the fear disappears.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important — or so hard to realise — than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Nobel Prize acceptance (1957)

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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.

Benito Mussolini

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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