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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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