Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKYImmediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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 money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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