NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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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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