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.
NOAM CHOMSKYInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United 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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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