You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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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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