Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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