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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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