Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Censorship 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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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