Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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