Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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 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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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