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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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