If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYHistory shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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