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- As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t…
- A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the…
- It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s…
- The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
- There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
- So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies…
- The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.
- 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…
- ...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.…
- Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways…
- If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for…
- Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up…
- To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of…
- Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe…
- The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard…
- It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the process that is…
- Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if…
- The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense…
- Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of…
- In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the…
- You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
- Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance…
- The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
- Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach