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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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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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