If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
NOAM CHOMSKYFidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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