If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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