You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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