“And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.Boris Pasternak
“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.Dwight D. Eisenhower
“State = political society + civil society, in other words hegemony protected by the armor of coercion.Antonio Gramsci
“My adversaries… applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.Adolf Hitler