Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhen 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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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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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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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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 workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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