Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence.

The thing we need most is each other.

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?