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One Quotes by Matt Taibbi
- There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning…
- The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the…
- The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business…
- America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
- America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
- One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
- The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
- 'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street…
- I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business,…
- Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass…
- We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle