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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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