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“If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.”
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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies — socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor — and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
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