Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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 didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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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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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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