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"How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."
Change
"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."
Economy
"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt."
Time
"Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children."
Family
"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?"
Education
"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
Work
"How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally."
People
"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
Beginning
"There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency."
Politics
"If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster."
Society
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