Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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