The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
NOAM CHOMSKYI don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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