Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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