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Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be 'civilised' — or corrupted, depending on your point of view.

Easy things will take us so far but it is the harder ones that will take us to greatness.

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world - and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem erfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them.

Eat the rich! Burn their bones to keep warm! Redistribute their stolen resources!

Ecologist Paul Ehrlich stressed that people who hold opposing opinions need to engage in open discussion with well-reasoned dissent. Positions should be questioned and criticized, not the people who hold them. Personal attacks preclude open discussion because, once someone is put on the defensive, fruitful exchanges are impossible, at least for the moment.

Economics is only considered the dismal science because economists are so often called on to clean up after innumerate politicians.

É da natureza dos regimes plebiscitários que sejam realizados plebiscitos até a população acertar a resposta que o líder ou a elite bem-pensante tem por correta; nesse caso, nenhum plebiscito ulterior se faz necessário – ao menos acerca do mesmo tema.

Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many councillors. Their involvement in public life and political machinations was such that the Shylonian ambassador was able to report, to his monarch, that the women of the Garvey clique were ‘politicians first, homemakers second.

Education is political.

Effective operational activities are refined through process development.

Efforts by Democrats to portray Jackson as 'manly' and for the 'common man' were apparently more effective than were the campaign tactics of Adams’s supporters, who attempted to depict Jackson as violent, unjust, a paramour, and even a poor speller. It is quite possible that this anti-Jackson propaganda actually reinforced the positive image of Jackson as a masculine commoner—especially when contrasted with that of Adams, whom the Democrats depicted as an over-refined aristocrat.

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Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.

Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance.

Elections Campaigns are too short to be taken seriously. Political Opinions based on false propaganda are the cheapest commodities in the world.

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

Elections are called! May the better voters win!

El dolor psíquico experimentado por las poblaciones subordinadas debe ser tratado como ideología, no como un conocimiento anterior a la caída de Adán y Eva o como una teoría social comprensiva condensada... Pensar otra cosa implica afirmar que el dolor es meramente banal, una historia que ya siempre se ha contado.

Elections are supposed to be political occasions. In fact the opposite is true. The last thing politicians want to talk about at election-time is politics. What they want to talk about is votes. And the less you talk about politics, the more votes you're likely to win - otherwise you might offend someone.

Eligibility for government disability payments for many sickened people only exists on paper, it does not exist in reality.

Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, 'Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in mid-Atlantic; 215 drown. New York City fire destroys 700 buildings. Japanese earthquake kills 12,000. Worldwide cholera epidemic kills millions. Wages rise, but prices rise faster. Financial crash occurs on Van Buren's 36th day in office. Nation begins first great depression. Bank failures and closings spread like plague. 200,000 are unemployed. Business bankrupt; only pawnbrokers prosper. Van Buren declares ten-hour days on all federal jobs. There. Does that make you feel any better?

El poder político es simplemente el poder organizado de una clase para oprimir a otra.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

Empathie hat im Lauf der Geschichte oft dazu gedient, die Unterdrückung der niederen Schichten in einer Art und Weise aufzubereiten, die die Oberschicht verkraften kann. Indem das Leid dieser unterdrückten Gruppen auf unterhaltsame Weise nachvollziehbar gemacht wird, können die Mächtigen symbolisch Buße für ihre Rolle in diesem ungerechten System tun, während sie gleichzeitig jegliche Verantwortung für dessen Existenz abstreifen.

Emphasizing a lifestyle based on consumption is the ultimate violence against poor countries.

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

Empower your children - Allow self-discovery and self-awareness (their own key to success), Facilitate an environment for learning through experience (practice of knowledge acquired). Remember, this exploration will take place whether you approve or not – it’s inevitable, that’s why YOU MUST be in charge of providing awareness and exposure to improve the quality of decisions made during exploration and experimentation.

Endangering human life for profit should be a universal crime.

En la izquierda todos tienen la palabra "desliz" en la boca. Él no tiene deslices. Cuando da un paso a un lado, es porque tiene la intención de meter el dedo en la llaga. Lo mismo en la derecha, con sus mamonadas de "yo soy políticamente incorrecto", Una panda de burros. Lo único que buscan es la aprobación del más fuerte. El mantra nacional, tanto de un lado como de otro, es "sobre todo no quiero líos". Él los busca. Desde siempre. (...) Cuando los jefes de izquierdas te contratan, te hacen firmar los mismo contratos, currar en las mismas condiciones, pero encima te piden que los admires y se ofenden si les hablas de horas extras. Cuando hay un buen puesto que cubrir, hace como los demás: colocan a su hijo, a su amante o a su sobrino. Te contratan por el salario mínimo y te exprimen como a un limón, pero por la mañana deberías estar contento porque te llamen por tu nombre de pila. A él le importa una mierda que lo saluden correctamente, él va por la nómina. Si la cifra de la parte de abajo de la tuya es diez veces superior a la mía, puedes guardarte tu amabilidad.

Enquanto eles não se conscientizarem, não serão rebeldes autênticos e, enquanto não se rebelarem, não têm como se conscientizarem.

En Venezuela no solo mueren los sueños, y las esperanzas a diario, también muere la justicia, la verdad, y por supuesto “los venezolanos”. Aquí muere todo, pero al parecer sobrevive la patria.

Environmentalists generally object to battery-powered devices and for good reason: batteries require mined minerals, employ manufacturing processes that leak toxins into local ecosystems and leave behind an even-worse trail of side effects upon disposal. Though when it comes to the largest mass-produced battery-powered gadget ever created—the electric car—environmentalists cannot jump from their seats fast enough to applaud it.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

Es el mercado, amigo.

Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.

Ésas son nuestras líneas rojas: la vida, la libertad y la unidad de España. La última es tan importante como las otras dos. Hay quienes dicen que se podía resolver mediante un referéndum. Nosotros no lo aceptamos. España no se puede suicidar.

Europe has achieved peaceful political union for the first time ever: They're using this unprecedented state of affairs to harmonize the curvature of bananas.

EUrotic, adj. 1. A psychological condition characterized by episodes of complete divorcement from reality; 2. A strong sexual attraction to political power.

Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit contradicts capitalist development in two ways. First of all there exist within Europe among the capitalist States – and will so long as these exist – the most violent struggles of competition and antagonisms, and secondly the European States can no longer get along economically without the non-European countries. ... At the present stage of development of the world market and of world economy, the conception of Europe as an isolated economic unit is a sterile concoction of the brain. ... And if the idea of a European union in the economic sense has long been outstripped, this is no less the case in the political sense. .... Only were one suddenly to lose sight of all these happenings and manoeuvres, and to transfer oneself back to the blissful times of the European concert of powers, could one say, for instance, that for forty years we have had uninterrupted peace. This conception, which considers only events on the European continent, does not notice that the very reason why we have had no war in Europe for decades is the fact that international antagonisms have grown infinitely beyond the narrow confines of the European continent, and that European problems and interests are now fought out on the world seas and in the by-corners of Europe.

Europe needs a boundary like a fish needs a bicycle.

Europeans can meet the challenges of the coming century only by pooling their efforts. We are convinced that what they need is one Europe — peaceful and democratic, a Europe that maintains all its diversity and common humanistic ideas, a prosperous Europe that extends its hand to the rest of the world. A Europe that confidently advances into the future.

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism.

Even in peace there is war.

Even the purest of souls get ravished and consumed by the most thirsty quintessential desire to possess power.

Even preschoolers have their own politics