While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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.’
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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