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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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Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used…
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Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and…
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I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know,…
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This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing,…
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'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on…
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Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
— Billy Corgan
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I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding…
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Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground,…
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Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.
— Unknown Author
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