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"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
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"You create your world with your thoughts."
"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"
"Television has tremendous power over our lives."
"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."
"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
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