Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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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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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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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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