That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYRemember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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