That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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