“Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.”
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“We must present a national persona of being irrational and vindictive, because that's going to terrify people. And then, they'll back off. And this is not [Donald] Trump, this is [Bill] Clinton. It's not [Richard] Nixon, you know. We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people.”
“All media depend on advertisement to survive.”
“There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.”
“If you can't beat 'em, join 'em... then beat 'em.”
“As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.”
“The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.”
“Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.”
“Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.”
“f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
“The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.”
“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”
“We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth”
“The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.”
“I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.”
“I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.”
“Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.”
“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.”
“For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.”