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.
NOAM CHOMSKYA tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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The 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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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 childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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