Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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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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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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