States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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