I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn 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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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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