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Maybe art couldn’t survive it if was sponsored by the government. Maybe art always had to be subversive.

— Lisa Goldstein A Mask for the General (1987)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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