"Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the worldâ€™s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations."

-- Noam Chomsky

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“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.”
“Only when something becomes a problem for "me" as one of my goal orientated actions, do I pause in full stride, as it were, in order to learn the competencies that I lack.”
“What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.”
“Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.”
“It shouldn't surprise any American to know that Russia uses its money and its intelligence services to spread disinformation, use subterfuge and deception and manipulation, to try to divide political opinion within the United States, within any Western European country, or among NATO countries. That's one of the techniques that Russia has used for decades, during the Cold War and during the Putin era.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.”
“[Hollywood] always sounds glamorous when you're young.”
“It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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