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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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 U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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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.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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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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