Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKYFidel 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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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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 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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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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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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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