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Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using…
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live…
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The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…
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The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families…
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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does,…
— Karl Marx
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The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never…
— Martha Stewart
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical…
— Paul Samuelson
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For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few…
— Pope Pius XI
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The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside…
— Matt Taibbi
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real…
— Simone Weil
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