What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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