Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
NOAM CHOMSKYI don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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