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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Achieve Basis Build Something Want
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Dangerous Give People Privacy Will
Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Civil Disobedience Fun No
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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Between Corporation Distinguish Individual Institution Look Owner Slave
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Cold Done Mean Weather Work
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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My Pay Tax Year
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Against Argument I Meed Use Violence
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Cannot Consumption Control Distract Population
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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Citizen Do Government Law Secret State Suppose
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Abounded Act Courage Crisis Happen Make Petrified Thoughtfulness
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Accept Disobedience Godfather Money Not Pay Protection Small Storekeeper
International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Affair International Mafia Much Run

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