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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no...

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about people, man, things

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about equality, moral, people

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

Quote by John Perkins about affair, companies, security, nation, school

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

Quote by John Perkins about nation, tests, drugs, security, lie, culture, money, power, sex, day

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