Nicholas von Hoffman Citas

• Para sus miembros comprometidos (el Partido Demócrata) seguía siendo el partido del corazón, la humanidad y la justicia, pero para los que se alejaban unos pasos se parecía a la tripulación del Capitán Garfio: abogados perseguidores de ambulancias, voraces subvencionadores de políticas públicas, partidarios de los derechos civiles, estrellas de cine bobaliconas, un grupo grotesco de maleducados, autocompasivos y gorrones que golpeaban el suelo con sus tazas de hojalata exigiendo limosna.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Estrellas, Niños, Fiesta

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• Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Crazy, War, Party

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• We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Jobs, War

  Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown

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• ... Don [Hewitt, productor ejecutivo de 60 Minutes] me dijo: "Has hecho retroceder 20 años al periodismo televisivo". Naturalmente, me sentí orgulloso y eufórico, aunque demasiado modesto para decirlo, pero el periodismo televisivo se recuperó con presteza, no me renovaron el contrato y el incidente cayó en el olvido.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Years, Proud, Journalism

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• Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Taken, Media, America

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• We are the people are parents warned us against.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  People, Parent

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• Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the welfare mess, out of foodstamps and ship subsidies, out of perpetual inflation, and they suggest a means of doing these things without being too disruptive of the wealth of five percent of the population who own the rest of us.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Mean, Promise

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• Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Ideas, Rescue, Quarrels

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• In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly."

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Motivation, Philosophy, Writing

  Nicholas von Hoffman (2010). “Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Hate, Pockets, Taxation

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• What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created as they are produced, with the producer-director becoming the star and the controlling force of much that was in other hands at other times.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Arte, Estrellas, Manos

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• El gobierno estadounidense ha estado cosechando las uvas de la ira de Oriente Medio durante una generación y tampoco lo ha ocultado. Por muy pésimos que sean los medios de comunicación de masas, había suficientes noticias sobre lo que estaba ocurriendo, año tras año, para hacerse una idea de lo que estaba pasando... Ningún estadounidense puede decir sinceramente que no pudo enterarse de lo que ocurría.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wrath, Government, Media

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• La ayuda exterior se ha perfeccionado de tal manera que subvenciona la agricultura corporativa estadounidense al tiempo que impide a los países pobres desarrollar una agricultura rentable o alimentarse por sí mismos.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Country, Agriculture, Poor

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• But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, People, Politics

  Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown

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• La culpa de las enloquecedoras complicaciones del sistema fiscal federal es de los que más dinero tienen

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  People, Taxation, Blame

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