"Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got"
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"With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined."
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"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."
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"Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."
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"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."
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"For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses, or places of worship or especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it's true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that is out there."
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"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
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"Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians."
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"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves."
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"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."
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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."
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"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."
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"Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning."
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"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes."
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"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."
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"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."
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"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics."
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"I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty"
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
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