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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to…
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the…
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States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize…
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Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has…
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Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…
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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
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But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic…
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you…
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to…
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The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
— Themistocles
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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy,
— Aristotle
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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
— Anaxagoras
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Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it…
— Thucydides
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
— Demosthenes
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The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence,…
— Protagoras
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This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have…
— Livy
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear…
— Lactantius
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs…
— Plato
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O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
— Alexander the Great
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