The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
NOAM CHOMSKYJohn Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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