Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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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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