The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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