The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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No 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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