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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 feedback from the…

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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…
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
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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The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to… — Kent Beck
By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and… — Michael Parenti
It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love.… — Thomas Merton
Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape… — Aristide Maillol
The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our… — Rich Mullins
Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry
Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard… — Esther Hicks
When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

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