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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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