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“Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.”
― Carl Schmitt, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

“Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.”
― Carl Schmitt

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.”
― Enver Hoxha

“The French are completely without scruples, energy or valor - the Great War castrated them and left them diminished, whiney, mistaking bickering for debate and shrillness for eloquence, they are a nation in such effete decline that Shickelgrubber, when he finally attacks them, might be dancing with the keys to Paris in his hand after a week or two of puny skirmishing.”
― Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim

“Nyt, kun Karjalan kansa jälleen nousee ja sarastaa Suomen uusi huomen.”
― Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

“This trial is a farce. The real prosecutor is not the state of Finland, but the government of one great power. The real defendants are not the persons who were picked on political grounds and now stand accused here. The real defendant is the Finnish people. The purpose of this trial is not to mete out maximum sentences on those accused, but for a Finnish court to declare that Finland was the aggressor in the war and that the Soviet Union was a peace-loving, wronged victim of an unjustified aggression. [Final statement during Soviet dictated "War-responsibility" mock trial, 1945]”
― Risto Ryti

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.”
― Leon Degrelle

“A country cannot live in disorder, incompetence, irresponsibility, uncertainty, and corruption.”
― Leon Degrelle, The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
― Adolf Hitler

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
― Adolf Hitler

“Never Explain Anything”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“I like coffee exceedingly...”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
― Joseph Stalin

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

-- unsourced, suspected false quotation”
― Adolf Hitler

“No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.”
― adolf hitler

“[spurious].”
― Joseph Stalin

“You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.”
― Joseph Stalin

“I'm drunk but truthful.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.”
― Carl Schmitt

“[redacted; spurious].”
― Joseph Stalin

“There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“yo ho ho and a bottle of rum”
― Robert Lewis Stevenson, Treasure Island