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Before Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain…
- September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world…
- If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and…
- A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?†asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?†the…
- I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
- My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out…
- Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your…
- Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence…
- The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which…
- The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
- The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They… — Barack Obama