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.
NOAM CHOMSKYCensorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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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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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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