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- When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to…
- Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority,…
- And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying…
- The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy…
- If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a…
- The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't…
- If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests,…
- I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the…
- As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.
- Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get…
- Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all.
- Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be -…
- Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
- By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle