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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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 public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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