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“Shaping the principles of policy debate, I learned, is often the first step toward winning it.”
― The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
― The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
“Increasingly, municipalities (and companies contracted by municipalities) are behaving like businesses, viewing residents as potential sources of revenue, as well as viewing the generation of revenue via fines as a form of productivity.”
― Carceral Capitalism
― Carceral Capitalism
“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“I spit on fools who fail to include breasts in their metaphysics, // Star-gazers who have not enumerated them among the moons of the earth”
― New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
― New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
“What I learned was more than sufficient to impress upon me the horror, the real danger, and the utter insanity of thermonuclear warfare, which threatens everyone on earth. Our reports, and the conferences where we discussed a strategic thermonuclear strike on a potential enemy, transformed the unthinkable and monstrous into a subject for detailed investigation and calculation ... I could not stop thinking about this, and I came to realize that the technical, military, and economic problems are secondary; the fundamental issues are political and ethical. Gradually, subconsciously, I was approaching an irrevocable step—a wide-ranging public statement on war and peace and other global issues.”
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