In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
NOAM CHOMSKYIntellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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