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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

Noam Chomsky

You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Idea Important Listen Obedience Order Otherwise Place Spread
The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Even Hardly Idea Impose International Introduce Joke Principle
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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Favour Fundamental Good Moral People Policy Reason Reform Stability Whatever
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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Essential Existence Freedom Human Idea Phase Possible Survival Value
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Dangerous Give People Privacy Will
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Analog Animal Appear Human Language Phenomenon Significance Unique World
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Aggressive Country Least Major Military Power Threat
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Dress Nationalism Other Way
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Idea Inheritor Liberal Liberalization Properly Regard Socialism
In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Bail Case Environment No One Out
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Choice Country Impse Invade Regime Stability
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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Democracy Election Establish Fun Fund Hope Money Politics Public Real
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Ashamed Civility Intellectual Myself Power Tradition
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Cockroach Decide Explain Human Psychoanalysis Something Think
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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Coalesce Control Group Investor Mean Occasion Sentence State

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