The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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