“Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.” ShouldWritingPersonsMatterStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesEffectsMoralityStandardsAssumingInternationalConvictionAssumptionJudgedHabitualSubversiveRhetorical Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).” IfsShouldWarStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesWindConvictionUnited NationsRenderingDominating Author:Lyn Nofziger
“The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to ensure that security. That is Israel's prerogative. We accept that. We endorse that. Whatever Israel decides cannot, will not, will never, not ever, alter our fundamental commitment to her security.” StatesUnitedAcceptingStepsUnited StatesSecurityCommitmentAbsolutesFundamentalsConvictionIsraelScaryPrerogativeUncompromising Author:Al Gore
“The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.” StatesUnitedConsciousnessClassUnited StatesConvictionExtremesFamiliarSuperiorsVersionsSpeakersTravelerClass Consciousness Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.” StatesNightSpeakUnitedKnownUnited StatesIntegrityEqualConvictionEvery NightPlatformsSuffrage Author:Anna Howard Shaw
“There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.” PeopleWorldMeanDoeHardStatesFactsNationsUnitedLibertyUnited StatesMovedConvictionCoreFreedom And LibertyBeaconsHard CoreGood In The World Book:The Historic Unfulfilled Promise Source: The Historic Unfulfilled Promise