Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYUp until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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 intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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 invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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