There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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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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