"We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation."

-- Joschka Fischer

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“Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.”
“The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.”
“Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.”
“I've had a mentality that I can do anything, I've never put limitations on myself”
“I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.”
“The mass media are class media.”

Source : "Dirty Truths". Book by Michael Parenti, 1996.
“In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.”
“Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.”

Source : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall”, p.766, Simon and Schuster

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