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"Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed."
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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

"We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well."

"At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat."
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"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."

"I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern."

"I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something."

"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."

"I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far."

"You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it."

"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."
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