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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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If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday;…
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For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is…
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the…
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the…
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and…
— Bill Condon
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Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe…
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We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors.…
— Charles Kettering
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama cannot win, and they are put in place to assure a victory by Mitt Romney... this…
— Roseanne Barr
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Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
— Thomas Szasz
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Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
— R. D. Laing
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms…
— Walter Darby Bannard
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