Joe Bageant famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda
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If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.
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You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door
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Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.
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They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.
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The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue.
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Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.
-- Joe Bageant
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.
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Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
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In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded
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The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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