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.
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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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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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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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 United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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