Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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