I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt 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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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