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.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut 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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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