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It's narrow sectors of domestic power that the administration is serving. (Noam Chomsky)
The conclusion in the State Department was, "OK, this proves that they're agents of the international communist conspiracy. Ho Chi Minh is such a loyal slave of"-pick it, Mao or Stalin-"that he doesn't even need orders." View quote
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Why have them in some island in the Pacific? Well, the answer to that is clear, after all they're just a bunch of little brown people. View quote
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[Q: when do you think is it right to intervene in the affairs of another nation? ] I think there are conditions under which that would be possible. One basic condition is that nonviolent -- you mean violent intervention? -- that nonviolent means have been exhausted. That's one condition. A second condition is that the people of the country in which you're intervening support the intervention. Under those conditions -- and you can think of others -- intervention would be justified. However, we don't ever apply those conditions. View quote
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. View quote
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If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it. View quote
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Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. View quote
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You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp. View quote
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If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators. View quote
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Until the United States prosecutes its own leaders, it is guilty of grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, that means war crimes. View quote
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If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. (Noam Chomsky)
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. View quote
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The only question is how coalitions of investors have shifted around on tactical issues now and then. As they do, the parties shift to opposite positions, within a narrow spectrum. View quote
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This was slaughter, not war. View quote
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The president is not the first to ask: "Why do they hate us?" View quote
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The information they get comes from ideological fanatics, typically, who always misunderstand things in their own crazy way. View quote
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Canada became the per capita largest war exporter, trying to make as much money as it could from the murder of people in Indochina. View quote
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Similarly, if an editorial writer for the New York Times were to start, say, telling the truth. View quote
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If you take a poll among U.S. intellectuals, support for bombing Afghanistan is just overwhelming, but how many of them think that you should bomb Washington because of the U.S. war against Nicaragua, let's say, or Cuba or Turkey, or anyone else? View quote
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And by intervening with force and violence to suppress and destroy any attempt. View quote
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We have a big argument here about whether Nicaragua and Cuba are sending arms to El Salvador. (Noam Chomsky)
If I have the right to free speech, it doesn't interfere with your right to free speech. But if I have property, that interferes with your right to have that property. View quote
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I never criticized United States planners for mistakes in Vietnam. True, they made some mistakes, but my criticism was always aimed at what they aimed to do and largely achieved. View quote
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The Tet Offensive in January of 1968. View quote
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Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things. View quote
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