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- It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the…
- The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a…
- Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free…
- ...as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role…
- ...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers.…
- Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.
- I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge…
- If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally…
- Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is…
- It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.
- French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go…
- Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place
- It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions…
- I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their…
- When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.…
- In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting…
- You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
- There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
- In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
- Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your…
- In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study…
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- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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