If shame still has any meaning in this hell we're expected to live...it is thanks to that person who had the courage to go and kill,... Agreed, but shame won't fill our plates,... You're right in what you say, there have always been those who have filled their bellies because they had no sense of shame.
("Blindness")
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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.Jose Saramago
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
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The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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