The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYImmediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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