"Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria."

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Source : "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

Eric Alterman

#Hysteria Quotes #Mad Quotes #Political Quotes

“Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth”
“Iâ€™m interested that light has thingness itself, so itâ€™s not something that reveals something about other things youâ€™re looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.”
“When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.”
“Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.”
“All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!”
“I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'”
“There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.”
“War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.”

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