The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, … - George Orwell

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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

George Orwell

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

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What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!

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Robert A. Heinlein

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

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I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

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That's the advice I would give to women: Don't look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you? When you're dating a man, you should always feel good. You should never feel less than. You should never doubt yourself.

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