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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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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow…
— Noam Chomsky
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
— George Steiner
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[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
— Larry Wall
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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The…
— George Steiner
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Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed…
— John Muir
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