If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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