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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 American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer,… — Henry Adams
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he… — Mother Teresa
Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger. — Mother Teresa
The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover. — Albert Einstein
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of… — Henry Fielding
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. — Heinrich Heine
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer
In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should… — Benjamin Rush
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it… — Pierre Loti
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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