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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Howard Zinn
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Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
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The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
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Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
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There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.
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But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is to tell the truth.
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If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists
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It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.
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When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.
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Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
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I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.
Scott McCallum
George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.
Ann Robinson
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
Friedrich August von Hayek
In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
Max von Sydow
Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.
Jan Schakowsky
Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.
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Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
Johann Most
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
Jim Gerlach
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
Sun Myung Moon
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
Etta James
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Jay Roach
It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.
Terry Southern
This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.
Rufus King
I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.
Brandon Routh
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan
But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.
Ryan Phillippe
My definition of success is control.
Kenneth Branagh
Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.
David Cronenberg
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
Shawn Ashmore
Professional sports are something they can't control.
Troy Vincent
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus
Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
Germaine Greer