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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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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 internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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