Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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