Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
BILL MOYERSDemocracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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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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If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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There 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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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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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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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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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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