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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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