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  • We should seek byall means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

    - (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
      Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Oct.

  • If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

    - Erica ne  e Mann Jong
      'The  Artist  as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.

  • The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeplyas they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

    - George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
      'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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