Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
NOAM CHOMSKYChanges and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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 is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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