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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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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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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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And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her…
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She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of…
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Confusion starts to rhyme in this melody I sing. Questions filled my mind, puzzlement is all it brings.
— Unknown Author
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever…
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For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is…
— Michael Parenti
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Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,…
— Robert Nozick
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Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than…
— B.F. Skinner
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