My hand is not the color of yours, but if I prick it, the blood will flow, and I shall feel pain. The blood is of the same color as yours. God made me, and I am a man.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  Everyone has the right to say what he thinks, but there is no law that forces anyone to listen.

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  Every usurer and scoundrel could buy himself, for a few pennies, the title of ‘great patriot of the people’.

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  There were many liberal laws, and no freedom at all.

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  War propaganda comes down, in the end, to substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings.

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  The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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