Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
NOAM CHOMSKYNow that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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