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Letter "P" » political power
«The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democrac»
Author: Alex Carey
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Keywords:
century,
characterize,
characterized,
corporate,
developments,
political power,
propaganda,
protecting,
twentieth,
twentieths,
twentieth century
«When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power»
Author: Alston Chase
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About:
Knowledge,
Politics,
Power,
Truth
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Keywords:
advocacy,
confused,
political power,
pursuit,
quest,
quest for,
reduced,
The Quest,
The Search
«The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that control the modern world, may set it free to do the only thing that in this age it can do -to keep the neglected parts»
«The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.»
«The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of it struggle to keep and advance its political power.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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Keywords:
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cap,
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caps,
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revolutionary,
sling,
slings,
slung,
socialist,
somewhat,
spasmodically,
T,
to a great extent,
vindictiveness
«Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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Marches,
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plunderers,
political,
political power,
Thousands
«There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.»
Author: Plato
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
call,
come into,
hands,
humanity,
in this,
In this World,
kings,
no end,
philosophers,
philosophy,
political,
political power,
rulers,
States,
The State of the World,
The Troubles,
thus,
till,
troubles,
truly,
world power
«The distinctions of society vanish before the light of these truths. I attach myself to the multitude, not because they are voters and have political power; but because they are (human), and have within their reach the most glorious prizes of humanity. . . . Self-culture, the care which every (person) owes to (oneself), to the unfolding . . . of (one's) nature. . . .»