If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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John 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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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