You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYI took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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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.
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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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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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