Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYI 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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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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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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 United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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