If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration 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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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