The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn 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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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