“However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.” PeopleIfsLittlesCountryWisdomJobsPoliticalEnergyProductsPoliticianEatingMachinesWorkersIdeologyRoutineDistributionMachinery Book:Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity Source: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
“The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.” WarNamesLeftSpeakImaginationMoralOpinionBearsPoliticianDegreesClaimsRelationIraqHeatMakersTroopsMachineryCiviliansFaux Author:Lawrence Kaplan
“If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.” IfsMeanPositionPoliticianFunctionRemoveFulfillingMachinery Author:Malcolm X