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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system,...  
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations h...  
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. med...  
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action...  
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a br...  
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.  
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can ...  
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying,...  
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to e...  
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American presi...  
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.  
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we...  
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and free...  
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fi...  
Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central in...  
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanc...  
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian st...  
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, an...  
Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist at...  
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standard...  
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.  
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn...  
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, im...  
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cul...  
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is noth...  
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the r...  
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power an...  
Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religio...  
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discon...  
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a w...