Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
NOAM CHOMSKYSo slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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