"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."

People, Dream, Care, Old

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."

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"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."

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"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."

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"Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history."

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"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."

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"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."

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"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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"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."

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"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."

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