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 CHOMSKYThere’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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I 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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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