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.
NOAM CHOMSKYHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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