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.
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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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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