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"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."


"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live."


"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."


"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."


"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."


"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible."


"The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter."


"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."
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