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„One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.“
„Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.“
„The trick is to steal big.“
„Putting an end to the population explosion will not of itself save the ecosphere, but not ending it will add greatly to the dangers the planet faces. The environment can sustain a quality of life for just so many people.“
„The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.“
„Those who think Roman slavery was such a benign institution have not explained why fugitive slaves were a constant problem. Owners did not lightly countenance the loss of valuable property. They regularly used chains, metal collars, and other restraining devices. Slaves who fled were hunted down and returned to irate masters who were keen to inflict a severe retribution.“
„Actually, the New Deal’s central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.“
„In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it.“
„Conservatives have nothing againstincumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots.“
„There is no such thing as unbiased or objective reporting of news. All reports and analyses are selective and inferential to some inescapable degree – all the more reason to provide a wider ideological spectrum of opinions and not let one bias predominate. If we consider censorship to be a danger to our freedom, then we should not overlook the fact that the media are already heavily censored by those who own or advertise in them. The very process of selection allows the politico-economic interests of the selector to operate as a censor.“
„Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.“
„The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.“
„America represents more than just an economic system; it is an entire cultural and social order, a plutocracy, a system of rule that is mostly by and for the rich. Most universities and colleges, publishing houses, mass circulation magazines, newspapers, television and radio stations, professional sports teams, foundations, churches, private museums, charity organizations, and hospitals are organized as corporations, ruled by boards of trustees (or directors or regents) composed overwhelmingly of affluent business people. These boards exercise final judgement over all institutional matters.“
„To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.“
„The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western corporate interests. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West.“
„Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.“
„The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.“
„Conservatives insist that government should be ” run more like a business.” One might wonder how that could be possible, since“
„The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.“
„Marx said this, and so did Jefferson“
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