Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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