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“The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.”

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Eden Phillpotts was an English author known for his novels and poetry, which often explored social and moral issues, appealing to Victorian readers. more

“24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.”

“Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.”

People Looks States Turns United Enemy United States Communism Inward Wizards

Book:The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

Source: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

“Call it 'nationalism' when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word 'patriotism' for your efforts to make this country a kinder, more egalitarian place, and one that is less dangerous to the rest of the world.”

World Country Effort Dangerous Car Nationalism Flags Kinder

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.”

War Killing Flags Flag Waving

Author:Chris Hedges

“Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.”

World Views Dying Duty Sick Sacred Dollars Billions Corporations Exploitation Shareholders Multinationals Multinational Corporations Sick And Dying

Author:John le Carre

“In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.”

Has Beens Bits Enjoy Lord Issues Citizens Majors Mass Democratic Meaningful Enjoyed Corporations Our Society Wealthy Immense Arena Royalty

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.”

Political Media Agendas Establishment

Book:Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition

Source: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition

“The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.”

States Earth Interest Dollars Riches Corporations

Book:POINTS OF REBELLION

Source: POINTS OF REBELLION

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