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.
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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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