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You can get quite far in a democracy if you can convince a majority that they are victims of a minority, and that only you can protect them.

— Garry Kasparov On twitter (2016)

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The United States is a very different thing. It's a continent-spanning nation built from scratch by millions of immigrants from every part of the world on top of its native population.

Winter is Coming (2015)

My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

How Life Imitates Chess (2007)

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

How Life Imitates Chess (2007)

Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live.

Winter is Coming (2015)

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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