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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…

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An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture,… — Ken Wyatt
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security… — Michael Parenti
We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the… — Grace Lee Boggs
You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there… — Garret Dillahunt
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. — Richard Whately
Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the… — Howard Rheingold
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of… — Paul Valery

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