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| 0140d91 | Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin. | democracies free-speech money opinion organizations values | Alain de Botton | |
| 48315c9 | The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks. | betrayal groups loyalty organizations sects society traitor trust | Ricardo Piglia |