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The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.
The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.
The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.
Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.
You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.
Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.
I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.
Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.
The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers.
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.
How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.
I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
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.
When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.
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.
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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.
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.
[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.
There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.
It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.
I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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?
Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.