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.
NOAM CHOMSKYI would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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