Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKYI 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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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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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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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