The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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