“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.”

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

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.

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Something doesn’t look right,” vee said. “is the tire supposed to look like that?” i banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. “so we’ve got a flat,” vee said. “what now?

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression.

He tried to pull me against him, and i bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. ‘did you just bite me?

Never bet against a cat.

I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.