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Kathy Acker

"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."

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"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

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"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."

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"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out."
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"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive."
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