That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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