Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
NOAM CHOMSKYEither 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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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 U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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