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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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