The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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