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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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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
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The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact…
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Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world…
— Susan Sontag
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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own…
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What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
— Lester R. Brown
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We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism…
— Michael Parenti
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The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly,…
— Newt Gingrich
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In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a…
— Ida B. Wells
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. .…
— E F Schumacher
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