There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKYHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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 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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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