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Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.

Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India).

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.

I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.

The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

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