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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
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"Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world's resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that's the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change."
"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."
"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."
"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."
"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."
"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."
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"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
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