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" It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. "

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" The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. "

Noam Chomsky

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" To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. "

" I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. "

" In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss. "

" I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings. "

" The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups. "

" States are not moral agents. "

" I like Gramsci. He's an important person. "

Noam Chomsky

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" In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. "

" The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. "

" Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. "

" There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. "

" There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. "

" I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state. "

" When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future. "

" Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. "

" Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege. "

" The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. "

" The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. "

" The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them. "

" Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known. "

" NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist? "

" The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. "

" I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. "

" Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. 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. "

" Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. "

" The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans. "

" Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law. "

" Even 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. "

" By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. "