Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
BILL MOYERSBeauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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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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The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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