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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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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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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 very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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