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.
NOAM CHOMSKYNATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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I 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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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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 Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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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 public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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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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