Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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