What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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