There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
NOAM CHOMSKYDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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 public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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