If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
NOAM CHOMSKYI 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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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