If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYA tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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