It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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 U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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