Quote by Cornel West
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West

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Fear
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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. – Cornel West

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relationship
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Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, thats being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. – Cornel West

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Trust
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power
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The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. – William Hague

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power

The price of power is responsibility for the public good. – Withrop Aldrich

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power

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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power

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. – Oskar Schindler

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power

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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. – Lord Chesterfield

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Appearance

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesnt. – Jean-Luc Godard

Politics is a people business. I like people. – Laura Bush

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Politics

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. – Thomas Love Peacock

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Marriage