Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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