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Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.
International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.
Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming.
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.
No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.
The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.
Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.
The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.
The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.
Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other.
The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.
The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled.
Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...
Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.
It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.
The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?
The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.
When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard.
In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.
Labor # Unions are the leading force for # democratization and # progress .
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.
I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.
Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.
We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.
The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?
Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.
Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration.
Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.
We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.
To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.