If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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