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"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."
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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
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"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."


"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."


"My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics."


"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."


"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."


"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."


"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."


"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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