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“In the United States [] the two main business-dominated parties, with the support of the corporate community, have refused to reform laws that make it virtually impossible to create new political p...”
“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the gate, individuals still have bars and elaborate internal security systems. ...”
“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
“Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in...”
“It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the world: as long as America knows how to develop the sense of the earth at the sa...”
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid ...”
“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that the trade would have been impossible if certain Africa...”
“Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.”
“You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little not...”
“I expected to be happy, but let me tell you something. Anticipating happiness and being happy are two entirely different things. I told myself that all I wanted to do was go to the mall. I wanted t...”
“Americans think New Yorkers are property obsessed, but clearly they havent lived a day in Hong Kong. In this part of the world, a man isnt a man until he is a homeowner. His entire life leads up to...”
“...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of 76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on ...”
“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a sava...”
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American ...”
“The Master said, A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.(Analects 4.9)”
“The Master said, If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.”
“The Master said, The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.(Analects 4.16)”
“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial...”
“The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world w...”
“Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesnt run on greed? You think Russia doesnt run on greed? You think China doesnt run on greed? What is greed? Of course, none of us ...”
