"The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like..." - Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

— Stanley Kubrick
Filmmaker and photographer

politics

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Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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