Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKYI don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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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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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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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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