If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
NOAM CHOMSKYChanges and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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