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.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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