Sissela Bok writes that Machiavelli maintains in The Prince that rulers who cling to moral principles in order to avoid dirty hands, no matter the cost, are weak and invariably end up defeated, a view opposed by Erasmus and Kant.
It was not even staged in a socialist state until November 1968 when it was shown in Prague after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by fellow Warsaw Pact forces; appropriate given that differences in Communist doctrine is one of its themes.
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(Illyria was an actual country of classical antiquity, whose territory included modern Albania and surroundings.)
Dirty War | Dirty Jobs | The Dirty Dozen | Show of Hands | Dirty Dancing | Dirty Harry | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Dirty Pair | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film) | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Dirty Three | Dirty Sexy Money | Dirty Projectors | Dirty Old Town | Play Dirty | Dirty Penny | Dirty Dozen Brass Band | Idle Hands | Hands Across America | Angels with Dirty Faces | Ol' Dirty Bastard | Manos: The Hands of Fate | Let's Get Dirty (I Can't Get in da Club) | laying on of hands | Hands of Stone | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (musical) | Dirty Mind | A Low Down Dirty Shame | With Hands United | Tokyu Hands |
One of the album's tracks, "A Clean Mind and Dirty Hands," was named Song of the Year by Farm Journal in 1996 as the song best depicting genuine farm life.