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If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

All art is quite useless.

They’re paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.