Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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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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Every 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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