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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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Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
— Edward Bond
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
— John Lanchester
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I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of…
— John le Carre
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
— Omar Bongo
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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of…
— Natan Sharansky
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else…
— Banksy
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Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the…
— Noam Chomsky
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The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what…
— Ken Livingstone
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