"In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to indulge all of its weaknesses and darker tendencies."

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Source : "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

Richard D. Wolff

#Dark Quotes #America Quotes #Giving Quotes

“a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.”
“Donâ€™t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.”
“I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.”
“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
“Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan
“I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.”

Source : "Talking to Angel Haze". Interview with James C. Mckinley Jr., artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. October 24, 2012.
“Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.”

Source : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
“If you canâ€™t state your position in eight words, you donâ€™t have a position.”

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