All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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 Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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