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"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
"We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena."
"If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else."
"A Constitution should be short and obscure."
"President means chief servant"
"Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives."
"I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another."
"the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is."
"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."
"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
"As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime."
"I wasn't lucky. I deserved it."
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
"We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own."
"Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist."
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
"If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place."
"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
"...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?"
"People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening."
