I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhat happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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