Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhile the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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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.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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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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