Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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