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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.
- If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
- The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven…
- In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities,…
- When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after…
- If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
- You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
- By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
- There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
- In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were…
- Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.
- In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the…
- Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the…
- 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…
- In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
- There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S.…
- Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a…
- With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist…
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
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- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe