If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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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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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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