Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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