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...radical about any of those things. Those things have been going on in a very mainstream way for a very, very long time here. What's far more radical is to actually get beyond those entrapments as a society. Who knows? Maybe in this next decade we'll see decent people who rise to the forefront and change some things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike D. On New York City | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

...policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness--and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Rage and Retribution | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...medicine too strong? Call it, rather, a wholesome and intelligent enmity--the sort that impels even such a prosperous, messily tolerant organism as America to act. Anyone who does not loathe the people who did these things, and the people who cheer them on, is too philosophical for decent company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Rage and Retribution | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness?and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Rage and Retribution | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

...medicine too strong? Call it, rather, a wholesome and intelligent enmity - the sort that impels even such a prosperous, messily tolerant organism as America to act. Anyone who does not loathe the people who did these things, and the people who cheer them on, is too philosophical for decent company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Rage and Retribution | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

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