If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
NOAM CHOMSKYCensorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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