You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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