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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

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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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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