The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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 United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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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.
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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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