The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYCensorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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 term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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