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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in…
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...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
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In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much…
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It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of…
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.…
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In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from…
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True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
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Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical,…
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Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
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The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for…
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H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am…
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Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
— Marcel Proust
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. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the…
— Susan B. Anthony
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We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in…
— Cornel West
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Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy…
— Charles Saatchi
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Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity…
— Scott Turow
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.…
— Robert Higgs
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
— Ludwig von Mises
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King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values,…
— Cornel West
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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street…
— Cornel West
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And…
— Frank Herbert
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An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers,…
— Susan B. Anthony
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