The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
NOAM CHOMSKYFrance had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The 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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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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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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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