If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKYI mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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 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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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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