States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYCivil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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