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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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Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
— Annie Besant
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As was his language so was his life.
— Seneca the Younger
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A thug only understands you when you speak his language
— Alexander Lukashenko
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The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
— Unknown Author
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By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the…
— James Madison
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Speech happens to not be his language.
— Madame de Stael
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The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is…
— Confucius
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Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys…
— T. E. D. Klein
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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by…
— William Carlos Williams
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You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your…
— Kenneth Burke
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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
— Cyril Connolly
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