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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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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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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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