I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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