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The crucial questions in politics are not questions of right and wrong, but of obedience and disobedience. If you do not submit to political authority, then "If I say you're wrong, you're wrong, even if you're right."

— Jiang Shigong

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Time and history constitute the real God.

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The roots of struggle lie in the necessary truth that contradictions propel society forward.

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The political principles and the political will of the State are above all else.

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Between friends and enemies, there is no question of freedom, only violence and subjugation. This is the reality of politics, a reality that liberals often do not dare to face.

In human history, Britain may well have been the one and only nation to establish its political virtues completely on commercial operations, and to fully realize the rationalization of politics and morality.

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