Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
NOAM CHOMSKYAnti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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