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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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