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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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