There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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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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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 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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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