The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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