The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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