Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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