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## Orson Scott Card quotes on politics

1. > Damn, but they've got us brainwashed, haven't they!

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2. > So I have to fake it. No, I have to disbelieve it. I have to forget it's true. It isn't true. The truth is what they've been telling us

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3. > We never know when you will stop. And so we obey you when you're angry and irrational, because we're afraid of you. And if you think about it without letting rage cloud your reason, you'll realize that we have cause to be afraid

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4. > It was a mark of their naivete, to think that such a revolution could be accomplished so easily

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5. > I had the deal in writing. Since when has that ever stopped a determined government?

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6. > Yeah, that's why my mama taught me to say yes sir and no ma'am and please and thank you. So I could show grateful courtesy to a lawyer who's helping somebody take away my independence

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7. > One of the dangers of being so close to the center of power - one had to accept the whims of the powerful

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8. > You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it

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9. > ...But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart. Speaker for the Dead

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10. > If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

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