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.
NOAM CHOMSKYHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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