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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they…
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are…
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's…
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
— John Ralston Saul
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In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their…
— Kenny Smith
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An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism,…
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
— Robert M. Lindner
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Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of…
— Rollo May
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Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled…
— Arthur Koestler
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and…
— Rollo May
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Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is…
— Noam Chomsky
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The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he…
— Bernardo Bertolucci
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