The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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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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