"The media propagates a message that corporations want, and thereâ€™s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but theyâ€™re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch."

-- Chris Hedges

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“I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.”
“It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.”

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“When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.”
“I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.”
“The best players want to play in the best competition,”
“Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.”
“I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.”
“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”

Source : "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.

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