Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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