“On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.”
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“All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing”
“One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.”
“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”
“People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.”
“Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.”
“It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.”
“The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!”
“One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.”
“My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?”
“Piracy is our only option.”
“I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.”
“A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.”
“There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.”
“The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.”
“We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.”
“ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.”
“Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.”
“I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.”
“I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.”