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If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you dont have tim

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you dont have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. – Noam Chomsky

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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. – Noam Chomsky

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Freedom
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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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Public
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. – Noam Chomsky

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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. – Henry Clay

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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. – John Perry Barlow, 1992

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Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. – Winston Churchill

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I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. – Joseph Beuys

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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it. – Carl Hiaasen

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To go too far is as bad as to fall short. – Confucius

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Theres also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. – Andrew Wiles

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