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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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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now…
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If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool…
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Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent…
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Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience…
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The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political…
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Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they…
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One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's…
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My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
— Pierre Loti
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