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"During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country." - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel prize winner and pioneer of chemical warfare.

"Since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that." - Henry Kissinger, 10 March 1975 about his joke: "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer"

"Early to bed, Early to rise, Work like hell — And advertise!" - As quoted in The National Provisioner, Vol 44, June 1911.

"Welcome to hell" - message by Chechen fighters heard on Russian radios during the First Battle of Grosny moments before the 131st Separate Motor Rifle Brigade was wiped out.

"In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing," - Assar Lindbeck, economist on rent control, May 2019

"We were wrong, terribly wrong, and we owe it to future generations to explain why." - Robert McNamara, architect of the Vietnam war, 1995.

“They are having a revolution. We have to get my polo ponies out.” - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican, diplomat, playboy, suspected assassin and alleged rapist responding to the Cuban revolution.

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always." - Guy Debord, 1963, French radical, prankster and "national treasure"

"To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say," - Bertolt Brecht, German poet, director and political exile

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed," - Joseph Stalin, Soviet Dictator, Revolutionary, Bank Robber and Poet.