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"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
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"There is no gambling like politics."
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"A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill."
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"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."
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"Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics."
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"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
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"Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest."
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"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."
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"Oppression is opposition."
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"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister."
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"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage."
Business


"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
Politics


"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
Nature


"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."
Strength


"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
Animals


"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
Life


"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."
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"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth."
Wealth


"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
Economy
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