The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYNationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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