Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKYOne of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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