Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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