If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
NOAM CHOMSKYI stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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There’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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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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 Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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