The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
NOAM CHOMSKYHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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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 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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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