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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
"There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy."
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
"Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats."
"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
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"That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we don't call that a crime of democratic capitalism. If we were to carry out that calculation throughout the world. I wont even talk about it. But Sen is correct; they're not intended, just like the Chinese famine wasn't intended. But they are ideological and institutional crimes, and capitalist democracy and its advocates are responsible for them, in whatever sense supporters of so-called Communism are responsible for the Chinese famine. We don't have the entire responsibility, but certainly a large part of it."
"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."
"Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature."
"When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports."
"Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry."
"The liberal press cannot question the basic doctrine of the state religion, that the United States is benevolent, even though often misguided in its innocence, that it labors to permit free choice, even though at times some mistakes are committed in the exuberance of its programs of international goodwill. We must believe that we "Americans" are always good, though, to be sure, fallible."
"Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber."
"Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state."
"No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist."
"For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence."
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