If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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