Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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