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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Noam Chomsky

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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Brand Censor Effect Experience Imagination Individual Suffer
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Believe Desire Expression Freedom People
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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Aspect History Human Nature More Nothing Principal Product Psychological Relation Remove Social
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Choice Country Impse Invade Regime Stability
Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Control Government People Use
I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Cockroach Decide Explain Human Psychoanalysis Something Think
There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Gap Opinion Policy Public Tremendous
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Country Economic Enormous Growth Highest History Period
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
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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Accomplice Antic Gradually Hardly Most Nixon Reveal Surprise
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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Against Course International Offer Predatory Regie Some State Strike Weak
You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Idea Important Listen Obedience Order Otherwise Place Spread
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Challenge Education Environment Individual Opportunity Provide Rich
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Assumption Discussion Rational Share Significant Useful
If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Achieve Basis Build Something Want

They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

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