Quote by Thomas Frank
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that soci

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesnt work on this mirror principle, you dont have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesnt work that way. – Thomas Frank

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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task – of taking them to account for what theyve done – and this is especially true in the cultural realm. – Thomas Frank

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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a Near Great even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. – Thomas Frank

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For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. – Thomas Frank

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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Joseph Ratzinger

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The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You cant let anyone – or any society – determine those for you. – Morrie Schwartz

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Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. – Benjamin R. Barber

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Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. – Julian Green, Diary, 1958 December 28

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. – Aristotle

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