The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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You 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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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