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World Affairs
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It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
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― A Concise History of the Modern World
― A Concise History of the Modern World
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...the qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones Henry Kissinger has, and Walt Rostow has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians—none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse—because I don't understand enough. But world affairs are trivial: there's
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― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
