Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKYChanges and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKYLanguage 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYColorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
NOAM CHOMSKYStability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
NOAM CHOMSKYNationalism has a way of oppressing others.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYRational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
NOAM CHOMSKYI don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
NOAM CHOMSKYPerhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYOne of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
NOAM CHOMSKYHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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