Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
BILL MOYERSThe President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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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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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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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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