Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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 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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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