The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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