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.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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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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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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