You 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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