If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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