I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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