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geography is a science that deals with the distribution and arrangement of all elements of the earth's surface. it integrates the study of the earth's landscapes, people, places and environments. somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it. -- david rockefeller . increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment. -- mlk jr . fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. -- benito mussolini . i don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. -- henry kissinger . do you mean to say that policies in cambodia, timor, greece, and elsewhere should be considered kissinger's failures, not america's, and that we can purge ourselves by putting him in the dock? -- james fallows . the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. that, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power -- fdr . every new order pre-supposes the existence of disorder and is already infected with an inherent virus of future disorder. -- laibach . you lived in the days of the decimal system, the arab system -- tens, and little hundreds and thousands. we have eleven numerals now. -- hg wells . perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business. this is not a new phenomenon. it used to be called fascism.... the outward appearances of the democratic process are observed, but the powers of the state are diverted to the benefit of private interests. -- george soros, international financier . in dr. johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. with all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, i beg to submit that it is the first. - ambrose bierce . but there is something even worse: it is the first, last, and middle range of fools. -- h.l. mencken . when, however, we learn that in the time of the declaration of independence it was supposed that corporations could never succeed in competition with individual enterprise, it becomes easy to comprehend the failure of ‘the men of 1776’ to guard against present dangers -- richard t. ely, 1887 . satire isn't dead, they're just calling it the evening news -- c . the judge was...odd, strange spins of color like TRON or something, but now it just looks like 5 spraypainted hula-hoops screwed together in a weird pattern... -- flink, interlace . what breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. the faster they run the more strain on their heart -- raymond williams . there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism -- walter benjamin . throat parch tack drill press dread muezzin funereal vincoheration -- tornado riots . because the victim is sacred, it is criminal to kill him - but the victim is sacred only because he is to be killed -- girard . you get your information from the daily press. yet that is the very last place on earth to seek for truth in any state of form. -- emma goldman . in the four years I've been at abc news, we have never had three stories on one ~world news tonight~ about the savings and loan scandal. two nights ago there were three stories about 20 poor people smeared over the sidewalk in front of a bakery in sarajevo . that's a cheap story for television -- easy to do, easy to produce -- and everybody says, "oh millie, look at the blood." -- allan dodds frank . because the automatic assumption of this question is that if your attitude towards a certain social system, system of social values, etc., is ironic then you are subversive; you take it seriously, you are a conformist, etc. i think that the whole point, the basic underlying premise [...] . beware of all enterprises that require new clothing -- thoreau . for so-called late capitalism in general even -- that the system itself has as its inherent condition of functioning that its own ideology must not be taken seriously. cynicism as today's prevailing mode of ideology means that it is the positive condition of the functioning of the system that its own ideology must by its own subject not be taken seriously. an ideal subject today is the one who has ironic distance towards the system, etc., etc. and the reverse of this is that the only way, i would even say, to be really subversive is not to develop critical potentials, or ironic distance, but precisely to take the system more seriously than it takes itself seriously. -- slavoj žižek . so maybe ambulance chasing lawyers aren't the biggest cause of malpractice suits after all. maybe malpractice is. -- kevin drum . we will shock them with our incompetence and our disregard for human life, and eventually they will just give up, seeing the attacks are pointless and change nothing. -- a russian media critic, to nick patson walsh . historical events seem to occur twice: first as tragedy, the second time as farce. -- karl marx . the appearance of terrorism unvaryingly indicates the presence of more than two sides to a conflict, at least one unacknowledged partnership between supposed enemies, and at least two factions pitted against one another by an enemy of them both. -- the art of tools . something is terribly wrong when the only person that has been fired over terrorism is me. -- bill maher . all edenic projections of plenitude have proven dangerous. -- avital ronell . it is one of our collective shortcomings that we equate simple eloquence with sincerity, that to speak of a subject in such a way that its nature is instantly clear to the listener, through the simplest and most direct means possible, that such a person truly knows a subject, while those who stammer and spit at a subject feign knowledge, playing dress-up in someone else's ideas. this is one of the most diabolical weapons of the corpse. -- db . if you listen to the voices in your head, you will find me at the megaphone. -- mittens . the Market is a den of thieves, a Gambling Policy structured against the "Commons Stock of We the People..", who suffer all the losses. -- dave franklin . what vietnam was to the 1960s and 1970s, what lebanon and afghanistan were to the 1980s, and what the balkans were to the 1990s, the caspian region might be to the first decade of the new century: an explosive region that draws in the great powers -- robert d kaplan . after all these years, said ostrog, when graham pressed enquiries; the Commune has lifted its head again. -- hg wells . first, for simple geopolitical strategic interests, the u.s. cannot afford democracy in the middle east now. and I'm not playing any marxist games about the illusions of bourgeois democracy. i simply mean usual western liberal democracy - multiparty elections. -- slavoj žižek . they could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality ... and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening -- orwell . i am astonished each time i come to the u.s. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about latin america or about the world. it's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the u.s. -- eduardo galeano . cowardice accustoms us to seeing others die atrociously, locked in the strangest indifference -- paolo picasso . the search for truth is true religion, and the man who is seeking truth is the only religious man -- swami vivekananda . one word of truth outweighs the whole world. -- russian proverb . deprive a capitalist of his god-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the reagan administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy -- lewis lapham . what has happened in hollywood has happened to us all, because the focus of international business has shifted from production to distribution. and further -- whoever controls distribution shapes what is produced -- to what will fit under the seat or in the overhead compartment. -- frank pierson . capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. -- joseph schumpeter . y'know, satan spelled backwards and then with a few different letters and then turned back around spells scotto. proof positive. -- db . the essential problem is that these [...] leaders benefit from chaos by racketeering and other criminal activities. until, perhaps, they are convinced of the benefits that peace might bring them, no amount of money will provide a lasting solution. -- mark doyle, bbc news . thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it, that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment to wrong causes. - tdtctftn . the hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist of the u.s. marines -- thomas friedman . we should not forget that when iran fought against al-qaeda and the taleban, others actually supported those groups -- hossein musavian . you will not see this story on any television, or hear it on any radio broadcast -- john mccain . i intend to discover who are the prisoners and who the warders. i shall be running for office in this election. -- the prisoner . if we do not suppress the detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election cycle -- state rep john pappageorge . after the last tree is felled, christ will come back -- james watt . who remembers the armenians now? -- attrib. to h. . we believe in the future, and will look for it in the past if necessary. -- laibach . in the dark times, will there also be singing? yes, there will be singing. about the dark times. -- bertolt brecht . war is capitalism with its gloves off -- . forward, he cried from the rear, and the front rank died. and the general sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side. -- pink floyd . [I feel like] Captain Idiot in Astounding Science comics. -- Raymond Shaw, the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
geography is a science that deals with the distribution and arrangement of all elements of the earth's surface. it integrates the study of the earth's landscapes, people, places and environments. somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it. -- david rockefeller . increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment. -- mlk jr . fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. -- benito mussolini . i don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. -- henry kissinger . do you mean to say that policies in cambodia, timor, greece, and elsewhere should be considered kissinger's failures, not america's, and that we can purge ourselves by putting him in the dock? -- james fallows . the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. that, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power -- fdr . every new order pre-supposes the existence of disorder and is already infected with an inherent virus of future disorder. -- laibach . you lived in the days of the decimal system, the arab system -- tens, and little hundreds and thousands. we have eleven numerals now. -- hg wells . perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business. this is not a new phenomenon. it used to be called fascism.... the outward appearances of the democratic process are observed, but the powers of the state are diverted to the benefit of private interests. -- george soros, international financier . in dr. johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. with all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, i beg to submit that it is the first. - ambrose bierce . but there is something even worse: it is the first, last, and middle range of fools. -- h.l. mencken . when, however, we learn that in the time of the declaration of independence it was supposed that corporations could never succeed in competition with individual enterprise, it becomes easy to comprehend the failure of ‘the men of 1776’ to guard against present dangers -- richard t. ely, 1887 . satire isn't dead, they're just calling it the evening news -- c . the judge was...odd, strange spins of color like TRON or something, but now it just looks like 5 spraypainted hula-hoops screwed together in a weird pattern... -- flink, interlace . what breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. the faster they run the more strain on their heart -- raymond williams . there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism -- walter benjamin . throat parch tack drill press dread muezzin funereal vincoheration -- tornado riots . because the victim is sacred, it is criminal to kill him - but the victim is sacred only because he is to be killed -- girard . you get your information from the daily press. yet that is the very last place on earth to seek for truth in any state of form. -- emma goldman . in the four years I've been at abc news, we have never had three stories on one ~world news tonight~ about the savings and loan scandal. two nights ago there were three stories about 20 poor people smeared over the sidewalk in front of a bakery in sarajevo . that's a cheap story for television -- easy to do, easy to produce -- and everybody says, "oh millie, look at the blood." -- allan dodds frank . because the automatic assumption of this question is that if your attitude towards a certain social system, system of social values, etc., is ironic then you are subversive; you take it seriously, you are a conformist, etc. i think that the whole point, the basic underlying premise [...] . beware of all enterprises that require new clothing -- thoreau . for so-called late capitalism in general even -- that the system itself has as its inherent condition of functioning that its own ideology must not be taken seriously. cynicism as today's prevailing mode of ideology means that it is the positive condition of the functioning of the system that its own ideology must by its own subject not be taken seriously. an ideal subject today is the one who has ironic distance towards the system, etc., etc. and the reverse of this is that the only way, i would even say, to be really subversive is not to develop critical potentials, or ironic distance, but precisely to take the system more seriously than it takes itself seriously. -- slavoj žižek . so maybe ambulance chasing lawyers aren't the biggest cause of malpractice suits after all. maybe malpractice is. -- kevin drum . we will shock them with our incompetence and our disregard for human life, and eventually they will just give up, seeing the attacks are pointless and change nothing. -- a russian media critic, to nick patson walsh . historical events seem to occur twice: first as tragedy, the second time as farce. -- karl marx . the appearance of terrorism unvaryingly indicates the presence of more than two sides to a conflict, at least one unacknowledged partnership between supposed enemies, and at least two factions pitted against one another by an enemy of them both. -- the art of tools . something is terribly wrong when the only person that has been fired over terrorism is me. -- bill maher . all edenic projections of plenitude have proven dangerous. -- avital ronell . it is one of our collective shortcomings that we equate simple eloquence with sincerity, that to speak of a subject in such a way that its nature is instantly clear to the listener, through the simplest and most direct means possible, that such a person truly knows a subject, while those who stammer and spit at a subject feign knowledge, playing dress-up in someone else's ideas. this is one of the most diabolical weapons of the corpse. -- db . if you listen to the voices in your head, you will find me at the megaphone. -- mittens . the Market is a den of thieves, a Gambling Policy structured against the "Commons Stock of We the People..", who suffer all the losses. -- dave franklin . what vietnam was to the 1960s and 1970s, what lebanon and afghanistan were to the 1980s, and what the balkans were to the 1990s, the caspian region might be to the first decade of the new century: an explosive region that draws in the great powers -- robert d kaplan . after all these years, said ostrog, when graham pressed enquiries; the Commune has lifted its head again. -- hg wells . first, for simple geopolitical strategic interests, the u.s. cannot afford democracy in the middle east now. and I'm not playing any marxist games about the illusions of bourgeois democracy. i simply mean usual western liberal democracy - multiparty elections. -- slavoj žižek . they could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality ... and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening -- orwell . i am astonished each time i come to the u.s. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about latin america or about the world. it's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the u.s. -- eduardo galeano . cowardice accustoms us to seeing others die atrociously, locked in the strangest indifference -- paolo picasso . the search for truth is true religion, and the man who is seeking truth is the only religious man -- swami vivekananda . one word of truth outweighs the whole world. -- russian proverb . deprive a capitalist of his god-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the reagan administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy -- lewis lapham . what has happened in hollywood has happened to us all, because the focus of international business has shifted from production to distribution. and further -- whoever controls distribution shapes what is produced -- to what will fit under the seat or in the overhead compartment. -- frank pierson . capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. -- joseph schumpeter . y'know, satan spelled backwards and then with a few different letters and then turned back around spells scotto. proof positive. -- db . the essential problem is that these [...] leaders benefit from chaos by racketeering and other criminal activities. until, perhaps, they are convinced of the benefits that peace might bring them, no amount of money will provide a lasting solution. -- mark doyle, bbc news . thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it, that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment to wrong causes. - tdtctftn . the hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist of the u.s. marines -- thomas friedman . we should not forget that when iran fought against al-qaeda and the taleban, others actually supported those groups -- hossein musavian . you will not see this story on any television, or hear it on any radio broadcast -- john mccain . i intend to discover who are the prisoners and who the warders. i shall be running for office in this election. -- the prisoner . if we do not suppress the detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election cycle -- state rep john pappageorge . after the last tree is felled, christ will come back -- james watt . who remembers the armenians now? -- attrib. to h. . we believe in the future, and will look for it in the past if necessary. -- laibach . in the dark times, will there also be singing? yes, there will be singing. about the dark times. -- bertolt brecht . war is capitalism with its gloves off -- . forward, he cried from the rear, and the front rank died. and the general sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side. -- pink floyd . [I feel like] Captain Idiot in Astounding Science comics. -- Raymond Shaw, the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.