Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
NOAM CHOMSKYNicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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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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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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