The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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