Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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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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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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