Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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