"It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit."

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Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.81, The New Press

James W. Loewen

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Plans Quotes

“When we revolt itâ€™s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe”
“Just because you can't see the air, doesn't mean you stop breathing. And just because you can't see God, doesn't mean you stop believing”
“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
“I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.”
“Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.”

Source : James Harrington, John Toland, John Hall (1737). “Oceana”, p.516
“Donald Trump hasn`t decided, and most importantly, we don`t know if the old rules still apply.”
“Our interaction with our friends, for instance, is in large part an interaction with representations in our own head of the people before us. That's why a friend can surprise or disappoint us.”

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