History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
NOAM CHOMSKYEvery time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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But 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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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