The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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