The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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