You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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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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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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It 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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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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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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