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- The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to…
- To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to…
- As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state…
- In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a…
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph…
- Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic…
- There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown…
- There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's…
- Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools…
- I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish…
- The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
- It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s…
- Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in…
- There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
- Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,…
- The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a…
- Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.
- The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are…
- One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
- Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.
- It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology
- The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,…
- Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle