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There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.
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Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.
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When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.
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Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.
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We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.
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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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You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
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The Internet is an élite organization most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.
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Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.
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I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there.
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I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.
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It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.
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Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.
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The term intellectual is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.
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For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.
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There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied.
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