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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. – Noam Chomsky

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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. – Noam Chomsky

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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. Thats human nature. – Noam Chomsky

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson

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