If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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 truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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