Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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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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