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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.
- The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to…
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of…
- Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.
- The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to…
- Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for…
- The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences.…
- September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world…
- Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of…
- The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary…
- It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest…
- In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The…
- Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we…
- There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word…
- Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important…
- All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a…
- ...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers.…
- Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt