If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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