"The de facto censorship which leaves so many……" — William Blum
"The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed."
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13 Quotes by William Blum
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A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human…
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Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away…
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Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
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No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.
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Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in…
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
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The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best…
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From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than…
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might…
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Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the…
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America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that reason is morally worse than…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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