But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
NOAM CHOMSKYOur only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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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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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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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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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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