The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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