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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the only justification for any repressive institution

I presume so. The only justification for any repressive institution is economic or cultural backwardness. In time, we should move to the gradual elimination of all repressive institutions without limit, as far as I can see. Just looking at the epoch that we are in now, it seems to me that our prese…

—p.227 Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait Linguistics and Politics (213) by Noam Chomsky
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the need for creative self-expression

For instance, in your work in linguistics, you use concepts like ‘freedom’, ‘spontaneity’, creativity’, ‘innovation’ and so on. Is that connected in any way with your political views? Or is it just accidental?

A little of each. It is accidental in that the way these concepts arise in the study…

—p.223 Linguistics and Politics (213) by Noam Chomsky
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there are other things technology could be used for

So this means taking a second alternative. We aim to try and keep control over the laboratories but to try and control also what kind of research is done in them. Of course, this is difficult, because there are limited funds for anything except military research. It brings the problem of establishi…

—p.219 Linguistics and Politics (213) by Noam Chomsky
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merely because they were very bourgeois

Is a positive revolutionary culture conceivable today? For me, this is the most difficult problem posed by your question. My frank opinion is that everything within bourgeois culture that will be surpassed by a revolutionary culture will nevertheless ultimately also be preserved by it. I do not bel…

—p.209 Itinerary of a Thought (185) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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trammeled

It is evident that completely untrammelled initiatives can lead to a sort of madness.

—p.206 Itinerary of a Thought (185) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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