On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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