States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYMarkets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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