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• Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
• War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…
• In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
• The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
• We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.…
• No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.
• The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw…
• The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove…
• War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video…
• The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
• There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
• We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,…

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