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They did not just break down the doors of the building that housed American democracy. They trampled the very principles on which our country was founded.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt.

Never complain if you don't have a better solution.

Interview with Guenther Ziesel (2017)

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.

I play the Terminator, but you guys are the true terminators.

To American soldiers stationed in Iraq (2003)

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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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