You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven 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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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