For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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