Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
NOAM CHOMSKYTwo days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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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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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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