States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Perhaps 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.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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