All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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