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" A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster. "

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" The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. "

" By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. "

" As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking. "

" The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united. "

" Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. "

" It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. "

" If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. "

" A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself. "

" I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there. "

" I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. "

" Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. "

" I don't like the intellectual label. "

" In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. "

" Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too. "

" The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system. "

" Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms. "

" As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. "

" In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces. "

" 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 they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery. "

" The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. "

" Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb. "

" In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years. "

" Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real. "

" I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to. "

" The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s. "

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

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

" If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself. "

" To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. "

" Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. "