The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
NOAM CHOMSKYPropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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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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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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