Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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