If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKYChanges and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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