A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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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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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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