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- If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
- I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
- Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences…
- For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite…
- It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being…
- Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and…
- I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they…
- Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of…
- The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of…
- The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense…
- The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
- When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office,…
- Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
- The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
- When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won…
- American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.
- In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege…
- A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as…
- The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.
- The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
- The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and…
- When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to…
- Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
- The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
- The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome,…
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca