If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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But 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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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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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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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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