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- Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in…
- What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine…
- There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
- Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free…
- ...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers.…
- One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
- A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and…
- It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology
- If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.
- This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.
- The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political…
- Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe…
- State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson…
- French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go…
- It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions…
- Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if…
- 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 Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain…
- If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting…
- From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants…
- There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much…
- NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian…
- Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
- The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and…
- Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle