Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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