"The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

J. M. Coetzee

#Self Quotes #Law Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“Porches are America's lost rooms.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1996). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Houghton Mifflin
“The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.79, BoD – Books on Demand
“There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.”
“The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.”
“But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.”
“If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.”
“Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.”
“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”

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