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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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 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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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