The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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 Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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