Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Lewis H. Lapham
What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.
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politics decisions decision injustice imperfect
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
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Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
history
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
people history
What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?
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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
people power
Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.
people men power
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
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If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
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Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
war
Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
government
Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
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