"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied"

-- Ralph Ellison

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“In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.”

Source : Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing
“Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.”
“It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.”

Source : "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA". Book by Tim Weiner (p. 390), 2008.
“Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud....”
“Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.”
“The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.”
“Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.”
“Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.”

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