If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
NOAM CHOMSKYPropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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