If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
NOAM CHOMSKYSome 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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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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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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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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