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So un-insightful and poorly written I could put it down. The book appears to be a successful effort to capitalize on the term “geopolitics.” The author and publishers cranked out a shallow, quick, easy, and cheap book to primarily make a buck.
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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
― Propaganda and the Public Mind
― Propaganda and the Public Mind
“That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.”
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