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John Pilger

"The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies â€” socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor â€” and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food."

Source : "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.

John Pilger

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“I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.”

Source : "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.
“How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.”
“You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.”
“Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!”
“I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it." I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.”
“I like people who try to do big things.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I see a cool chick in the street, I'll watch her going by, won't I?”

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