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“My response to those who still try to justify Castro’s tyranny with the excuse that he has built schools and hospitals is this: Stalin, Hitler and Pinochet also built schools and hospitals, and like Castro, they also tortured and assassinated opponents. They built concentration and extermination camps and eradicated all liberties, committing the worst crimes against humanity.”
― Armando Valladares, Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

tags: castro, hitler, pinochet, stalin, tyranny

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“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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“Where there are repeated wars, the people are weakened; when they score repeated victories, rulers become haughty. Let haughty rulers command weakened people, and rare is the nation that will not perish as a result.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War: Complete Texts and Commentaries

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“Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

tags: benevolence, disaster, manmade, thinking-for-yourself, tyranny

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“The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.”
― Stewart Stafford

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