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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.

Noam Chomsky

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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Favour Fundamental Good Moral People Policy Reason Reform Stability Whatever
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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Assistance Attack Being Child Decent Dog Feel Hesitation Human Rapid Responsibility
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
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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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Country Down Good Intimidate Look Unlike Way Wrong
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Few Go Make Mirror Monster People Person Savage Say
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Citizen Do Government Law Secret State Suppose
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Against Argument I Meed Use Violence
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
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
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Aggressive Country Least Major Military Power Threat
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Appear Easily Fox More News
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Cold Done Mean Weather Work
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Country Good Harbor Many Omb Pearl Thing Very
But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Accordance General Imaginable Intend Most Necesasarly Responsibility

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