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.
NOAM CHOMSKYRomania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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