Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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