The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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