Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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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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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Intellectuals 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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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