The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
NOAM CHOMSKYLanguage 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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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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