In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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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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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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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 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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