History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut 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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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