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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is…
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a…
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners…
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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said,…
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude…
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer…
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
— Unknown Author
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and…
— Lord Acton
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Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from…
— Jacques Barzun
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The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power…
— Frank Herbert
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
— Harry Shearer
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
— Edmund Wilson
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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I…
— Robert Caro
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which…
— Lord Acton
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
— Vinton Cerf
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It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful…
— Terence Rattigan
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they…
— Lord Acton
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