I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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