Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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