Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
NOAM CHOMSKYNo matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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 stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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