I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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