You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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In 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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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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