But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
NOAM CHOMSKYSometimes I lose my temper.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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It 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.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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