If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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