Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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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.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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