The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Two 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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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 drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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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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