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" France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course. "

Noam Chomsky

Policy

Independent

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" You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. "

" In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands. "

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Demands

Willingness

" Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. "

" The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. "

" Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. "

" The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. "

" What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it's very high-quality oil, so very valuable. "

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Important

May

" In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America. "

" In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. "

" When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. "

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Way

Stanford

" In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining. "

" Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent. "

" I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?' "

" My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays. "

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

" I don't want followers. "

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Followers

Want

" How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. "

" The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid. "

" Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. "

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About

Favor

" In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. "

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

" Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. "

" Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good. "