Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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