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People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

— Vladimir Putin

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Even 50 years ago, the streets of Leningrad taught me one thing: if a fight is inevitable, go and fight first.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

There is no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.

I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart, Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

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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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