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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War
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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Causes Doe Fighting
The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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Believe People Thinking
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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Class Country Men People
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Approach Joined Journalism Strong
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
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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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Civilization People Reciprocity

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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