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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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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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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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