States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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 U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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