Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKYI 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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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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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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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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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