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Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.
A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't.
The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.
I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.
I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.
Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.
I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.
Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.
Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.
In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.
The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.
There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.
[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.
I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.
My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.
Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.
Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.
I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.
We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.
Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?
For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.
The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.
I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.
The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.
If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.
The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.