The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
NOAM CHOMSKYEither 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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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