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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…
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
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Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
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In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
— Roland Barthes
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers…
— Frederic Bastiat
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We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but…
— J I Packer
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I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the…
— Isaac Asimov
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There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits…
— Unknown Author
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Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.
— Barack Obama
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its…
— Rajneesh
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The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!
— Barbara Boxer
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As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy…
— Samuel Johnson
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By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.
— George MacDonald
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at…
— Norman Myers
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