The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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 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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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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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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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