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 CHOMSKYIt matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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