Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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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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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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