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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.

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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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 United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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