Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
NOAM CHOMSKYCivil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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