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Interesting Quotes - Page 7
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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To do evil, a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
- James Baldwin
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A good bad poem is a graceful monument to the obvious.
- Unknown, credited to George Orwell
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Washington Post- *deletes all mention of Thomas Jefferson from their archives*---
Wall Street Journal-*predicts the fall of stocks in any company with the words "Thomas" or "Jefferson"---
Chicago Tribune-*publicly denounces Thomas Jefferson---
NPR-"And this is why we are a radio station, tonight at 8:00 we..."
The problem with modern journalism is that most journalists are prigs. If all the people who are supposed to keep the politicians in check come from a narrow slice of the gentry, you get what we are experiencing now, where the media constantly casts shame on the lower classes. Instead of "keeping power in check", they simply parrot whatever ideology is popular among the wealthy at the current moment.
The media is quite simply out-of-touch with the common people. They don't come from the common people and possibly don't even know any. Maybe it's always been that way. In any case, I'd much rather be led by Thomas Jefferson than his critics.
Seems to me Jefferson should have thanked journalists for not telling the truth about him.
"Venezuela is a poor country because they have chosen a communist government. The US government has chosen to stop sending aid and trade with that country. Faced with this situation, Venezuelans have the choice between corruption or starving ..."