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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.

Noam Chomsky

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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Few Go Make Mirror Monster People Person Savage Say
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Country Disaster Ulter War
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Idea Inheritor Liberal Liberalization Properly Regard Socialism
The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Bank Central Commitment Country Employment First Keep Only Up
Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Civil Disobedience Fun No
If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Favour Fundamental Good Moral People Policy Reason Reform Stability Whatever
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Bible Book Genocidal History Most One
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Cannot Consumption Control Distract Population
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Attitude Engineer History Modern Opinion Perception Process Relation Shape Term
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Challenge Education Environment Individual Opportunity Provide Rich
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Arab Campaign Concern Oppression Perception President Regime Street Suppose
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Environment Extremities Ignore Impact Lethal Market Transition
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Amaze Long Mars Observe Probably Service
The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Council Far Gone International Law Observe Reagan Revolution Security States Under United Veto
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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Ashamed Civility Intellectual Myself Power Tradition

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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