Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven 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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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