So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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I 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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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