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"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"
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"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."
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"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."
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"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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"Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization."
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"American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India."
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"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."
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"Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today's New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called "moderate Republicans. The "political revolution that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the '50s and '60s, the minimum wage-which sets a floor for other wages-tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15."
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"I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that "Force is always on the side of the governed." Whether it's a military society, a partially free society, or what we - not he - would call a totalitarian state, it's the governed who have the power. And the rulers have to find ways to keep them from using their power. Force has its limits, so they have to use persuasion. They have to somehow find ways to convince people to accept authority. If they aren't able to do that, the whole thing is going to collapse."
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"I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance."
Appearance
"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."
Men
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."
Power
"Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."
Truth
"Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become."
Man
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
Being
"One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."
Credit
"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."
Contempt
"A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time."
Time
"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
Art
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