It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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