The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
NOAM CHOMSKYAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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