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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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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
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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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Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
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In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
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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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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have…
— Abdallah II
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
— Jane Addams
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It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
— Richard Leakey
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At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether,…
— Carl Jung
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in…
— Horace Mann
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We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This…
— Edward Bernays
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To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security…
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Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
— Edward Bernays
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of…
— Thomas Sowell
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This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of…
— Winston Churchill
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My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because…
— John Hughes
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers…
— Harold Ramis
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