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" Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. "

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

" If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. "

" I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times. "

" The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. "

" From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing. "

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

" It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination. "

" There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. "

" I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. "

" Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery. "

" Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. "

" 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. "

" It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. "

" Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. "

" There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. "

" I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility. "

" Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. "

" Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. "

" It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. "

" I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. "

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" 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 bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. "

" Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. "

" Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions. "

" The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else. "

" If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces. "

" I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. "

" Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying. "

" Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don't agree with, like bombing. "

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

" Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. "