Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKYNow that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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