Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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