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I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
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No conditions justify torture.
Norman Finkelstein
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The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.
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People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.
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People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
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Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
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The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.
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I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
Norman Finkelstein
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Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.
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The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
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Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
Norman Finkelstein