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Say what you will: politics spoils a man’s character. Or rather: politics show how basically rotten man’s character is.

— Joseph Goebbels

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He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

In a manner of speaking, it provides the background music.

Der Kongress zur Nürnberg (1934)

And in the last analysis better to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal capitalist servitude.

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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.

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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