Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
NOAM CHOMSKYI do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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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.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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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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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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