Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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 money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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