The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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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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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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