One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.
You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.
What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.
But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U. S. national security, as preached by U. S. leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people.
You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.
Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.