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So 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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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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Hero May People Primary Stood Think
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Amaze Long Mars Observe Probably Service
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Choice Country Impse Invade Regime Stability
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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Aspect History Human Nature More Nothing Principal Product Psychological Relation Remove Social
There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Gap Opinion Policy Public Tremendous
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Dangerous Give People Privacy Will
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Above Change Come Gift Progress Really Struggle
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Aspiration Associate Children Decline Hope Hour Income Kind People Wek Work
The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Childcare Credit Make Sense Some Tax
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Education Internet Very Meaningful Participation Positive Society
I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Cockroach Decide Explain Human Psychoanalysis Something Think
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Idea Inheritor Liberal Liberalization Properly Regard Socialism
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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Arab Campaign Concern Oppression Perception President Regime Street Suppose
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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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Almost Episode Insane Truth Whole

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