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 CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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