Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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.
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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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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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