The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKYAnti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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