The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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