Contextual Links Flashcards
1
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Juvenal: How to prevent revolutions
A
“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt”
2
Q
Machiavelli: Leadership style
A
“It is far safer to be feared than loved”
3
Q
Stalin: Power of ideas
A
“Ideas are more powerful than guns”
4
Q
Orwell: Historical revisionism
A
“He who controls the past controls the future”
5
Q
Marx: Capitalism and the working class
A
“[Capitalism] regards the proletarian … like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work”
6
Q
Lenin: How much freedom you should give your people
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“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed”
7
Q
Marx: Religion
A
“Religion is the opiate of the people”
