There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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