It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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