It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
NOAM CHOMSKYEither you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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