It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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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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