The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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 you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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