If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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