Some 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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