Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKYFor 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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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