International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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 internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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It 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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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