It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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