"the libertarian writer Charles Murray blames the hollowed-out middle for straying from the traditional family values and old-fashioned work ethic that he says prevail among the rich"

"Following the June Seventeenth uprising the secretary of the Writers' League had leaflets distributed on Stalin Allee where one could read that the people had forfeited the confidence of the government and could regain it only through redoubled efforts. Wouldn't it be simpler under these circumstances for the government to dissolve the people and elect another one?"

- Berthold Brecht