I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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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Up 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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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