Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKYThey come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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 money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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 godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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