NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
NOAM CHOMSKYNineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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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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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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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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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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