If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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