"For a country founded on the idea that……" — Matt Taibbi
"For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship."
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108 Quotes by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old…
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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…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism.…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being…
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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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