You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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 America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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