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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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