“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” — Frank Zappa …

“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” — Noam Chomsky …

“Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs — in religion, literature, colleges and schools — democracy in all public and private life” — Walt Whitman …

“I struggle to come to grips with the one recent President who was never subjected to a test from me or anyone else. While I did spend some time around him and the rest of the Bush family entourage while reporting on his father’s campaigns, he is the one President here who I never interviewed on the public record. No matter, George W. Bush is, for better or worse, the first truly electronically projected President.” …

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“Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. He wanted to stir a “racial pride” among his countrymen, so, instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as “The Homeland” … As hoped, people’s hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was “the” homeland, …

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“Being young and not being a revolutionary is a biological contradiction” — Salvador Allende …

“Trash has the power to unmask the exploitation of nature that is crystallized in all the commodities. Garbage reveals the market’s relation to nature; it teases out the environement al politics hidden inside manufactured goods. Because of this, transforming the way our society conceives of and treats the everyday substance of garbage would have profound effects in other areas of ecological crisis, such as dying oceans, ozone depletion, global warming, and the proliferation of toxic …

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“There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson …

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars — yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” — Naguib Mahfouz …