States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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