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In all democracies, starting with the American one, if someone lies about their private life, what kind of politician can they ever be?

— Lilli Gruber

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You must say “not” to the men who deny you power, profit, and pleasure.

Never go against the flow, or you risk not reaching your goal.

Power may well be disgusting, as men keep telling us, but in the meantime, we want it.

The battle for women's empowerment goes hand in hand with the battle for the survival of the planet.

I was seen as sour or aggressive, whereas if I had been a man, they would have said I was determined.

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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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