A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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H.l. Mencken
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
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Warren W. Wiersbe
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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Sue Monk Kidd
I observe and remain silent.
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Elizabeth I
It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.
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Hope Mirrlees
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A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.
