Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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