"States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate."

-- Noam Chomsky

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“Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.”
“My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.”
“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As aÂ person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

Source : "Folly's Antidote" by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. January 01, 2007.
“This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.”
“We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.”

Source : Jon Ronson (2015). “So You've Been Publicly Shamed”, p.136, Pan Macmillan
“They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.”
“Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too”

Source : "Press Clips". The Village Voice, January 21, 1980.
“If it ain't broke, you can probably still fix it.”

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