This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
~ Walter Kirn
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
~ Che Guevara
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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Once upon a time, food was about where you came from. Now, for many of us, it is about where we want to go — about who we want to be, how we choose to live.
~ John Lanchester
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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
~ Albert Camus
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The protocols and norms that emerged in the aftermath of 18th-century revolutions — the inviolability of private property, the abstract idea of the rights-bearing individual, the fiscal-military nation-state — are today under attack as forms of privilege themselves.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.
~ Milan Kundera
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
~ Milan Kundera
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Civilization as we know it is inseparable from urban life.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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