Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKYEither 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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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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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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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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