Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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.
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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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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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