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 CHOMSKYSo 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 money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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