“Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on ONE hand...', then 'but on the other...”
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“Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.”
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“history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.”
― Diplomacy
― Diplomacy
“The nationalist, too, affirms Socialism, and objects only to its Internationalism. He wishes to combine Socialism with the ideas of Imperialism and the struggle against foreign nations. He is a national, not an international socialist; but he, also, approves of the essential principles of Socialism.”
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“True goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. ... What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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