The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration 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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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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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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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