Governments don’t control people like they used to.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven 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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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