Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKYAll 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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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