The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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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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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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