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The trick is to steal big.
Apathy's a problem but who cares?
One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.
Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.
When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.
The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.
You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response.
There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."
The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.
People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.
Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.
I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.
The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.
Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.
The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.
To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.
Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.
Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.
The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.
The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.
Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than human need is the determining condition of private investment.
Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation.
Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine and destroy popular movements whenever possible.
The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.
I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.
The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.
Julius Caesar was an aristocrat who sided with the Roman people. He's not my hero, but he was one of a long line of what we'll call 'populares,' which were popular leaders who tried to institute these reforms that the people were fighting for.