You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us... than the need for any external expansion of our power.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life.
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