Quote by Jean Baudrillard
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved — commitment to a scenario. – Jean Baudrillard

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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. – Jean Baudrillard

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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. – Jean Baudrillard

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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. – Jean Baudrillard

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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. – H. L. Mencken

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The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. – Mike Pence

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy

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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life. – Fawn Hall

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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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High expectations are the key to everything. – Sam Walton

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In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. – Mary Renault

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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. – Marilyn vos Savant

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