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.
NOAM CHOMSKYStability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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