If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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