The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou 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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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