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" The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware. "
Noam Chomsky
Majority
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" Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. "
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" I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to. "
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" There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it. "
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" I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science. "
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" In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it. "
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" The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan. "
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Gone
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" There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments. "
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Think
Work
Who
" It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track. "
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" Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. "
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Liberal
Growth
" In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out. "
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Bail
Case
Environment
" American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898. "
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Cuba
American
Hawaii
" We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. "
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Confident
War
Will
" A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. "
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War
Against
Won
" When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion. "
Noam Chomsky
End
Away
Right
" Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg. "
Noam Chomsky
Leaders
Against
Peace
" Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them. "
Noam Chomsky
Own
Enemy
Know
" The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. "
Noam Chomsky
Government
World
Say
" 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. "
Noam Chomsky
Rich
Best
Education
" With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. "
Noam Chomsky
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Injustice
Capitalism
" It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development. "
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Library
Internet
Go
" The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years. "
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Africa
Story
Horror
" Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. "
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Democracy
World
War
" Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. "
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He
About
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" The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. "
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Project
America
Construction
" All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. "
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Pressure
Decisions
Culture
" In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries. "
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Much
Country
Power
" Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. "
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Effort
Will
Never
" History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. "
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Than
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" In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. "
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" To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. "
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