There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKYCivil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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It 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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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