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An Autocratic System Of Coercion, In My Opinion, Soon Degenerates. For Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels. For This Reason I Have Always Been Passionately Opposed To Systems Such As We See In Italy And Russia To-day.

-Albert Einstein

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An Autocratic System Of Coercion, In My Opinion, Soon Degenerates. For Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels. For This Reason I Have Always Been Passionately Opposed To Systems Such As We See In Italy And Russia To-day.

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