States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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