January 2010
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Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are...
– Buckminster Fuller
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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity...
– Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
The Most Suspicious Attention
“To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers… The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It...
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It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because...
– Anne Frank, in her diary, 1944
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I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in...
– Thomas Paine, 1796
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“If you cannot ban corporate spending on ads, how... →
(see also: “Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me.”)
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The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.
– Shakespeare
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails,...
– Frederick Douglass, 1886