Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it — Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it — Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it — Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it — Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it — Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
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Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it may be hard for her to stop grazing, because there are always a few more shoots of fresh grass just ahead of her.

— Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
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In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democrac — Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and o — Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
Capitalism is a social system where the health and security of a nation are compromised for corporate gain. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall. — Alexander Hamilton
Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government. — Steven Magee
It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the pro — Steven Magee
Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them. — Steven Magee
I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corrup — Steven Magee
Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. — Elizabeth Warren
Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not — P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So — William Shakespeare