Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness,Could never be friendly ourselves.

~ Bertolt Brecht

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A study of the San Francisco Beat enclave by psychiatrist Dr. Francis Rigney in the late 1950's showed 60 percent were so psychotic or crippled by tensions, anxiety and neurosis as to be nonfunctional in the competitive world. In contrast, the several studies released so far made of the student radicals at Berkeley show them to be stable, serious, and of above-average intelligence. The point is that the Beats had to cop out of the Rat Race because they couldn't perform; the New Left chooses to reject a society it could easily be successful in.

~ Jack Newfield

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How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

~ Christopher Hitchens

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