War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
BILL MOYERSThere is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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